Global Issues
News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 186
Belize Passes Milestone Law to Safeguard Fisheries
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Feb 26 (IPS) - The Environmental Defence Fund and its partners in conservation are this month celebrating a major milestone in Belize's efforts to safeguard its fisheries.
Preserving World’s Biodiversity: Negotiations Convene at FAO Headquarters
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 24 (IPS) - "The world out there is watching and waiting for results," Elizabeth Maruma Mrema warns while talking to IPS regarding the preservation of biodiversity of our planet.
India’s Orange Farmers Search for Sustainable Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
JAMPUI HILLS, India, Feb 24 (IPS) - India's Jampui Hills – a picturesque hill station in the north eastern province — has been know for decades as the Orange Bowl. But a changing climate has led farmers on a search for sustainable agriculture.
Hillol Datta, 26, travelled for two days from Kolkata to Jampui Hills – a picturesque hill station in the north eastern province of India – to see its fruit-laden orange orchards. However, after driving for several hours, all that the young traveller saw were bald patches along the hill slopes and scattered rows of areca (nut) palm trees.
Ugandan Farmer Ends Food Insecurity for Family & Community
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb 24 (IPS) - In Aboke, Uganda, a modest restaurant serves locals breakfast, lunch and dinner. Carol Agoa isn't just the owner and cook, she also supplies all of the food for her restaurant.
SDGs Corporate Tracker to Monitor Progress of UN’s Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Feb 21 (IPS) - This year marks just ten years ahead of the deadline for completing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
These universally supported targets were always ambitious in their scope – yet what is clearer now than ever before is that quicker progress is crucial in the decade to come.
A Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Aims at Reinforcing Efforts to Save World’s Ecosystem
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - The UN's highly-touted socio-economic agenda, which lays out an ambitious global plan for "people, planet and prosperity", has been dominated by "goals, targets and deadlines."
As Planet Burns, One Million Species in World’s Eco-System in Danger of Extinction
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 18 (IPS) - When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the 193-member General Assembly last December, he focused on the smoldering climate crisis-- pointing out that the last five years have been the hottest ever recorded.
Biodiversity & Agriculture: Nature’s Matrix & Future of Conservation
- Inter Press Service
OAKLAND, California, Feb 18 (IPS) - When we were children, a long auto trip would require a stop every hour or so to clean the windshield of the insects that had been intercepted.
Tackling Climate Change and Preserving the Water Body: A Bangladeshi Perspective
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 17 (IPS) - For any riverine country, the state of the water body around big cities and conditions of major rivers hold a leadership position in the overall climate effects and how the water body is protected and preserved impacts the entire economy and living standards of that country.
That Mobile Game that’ll Generate Climate Solutions from Players Around the World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 17 (IPS) - The United Nations Development Programme is leading a climate change effort that might finally address concerns many advocates have: bridging the gap between people and governments.
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