Global IssuesNews headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 2
Interwoven Global Crises Can Best be Solved Together
- Inter Press Service
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BONN, Mar 02 (IPS) - When global crises are interlinked, they overlap and compound each other. In such cases, the most effective solutions are those that work at the nexus of all these challenges.
Wildlife Is Much More than a Safari. And It Is at Highest Risk of Extinction
- Inter Press Service
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MADRID, Mar 01 (IPS) - Wildlife is indeed far much more than a safari or an ‘exotic’ ornament: as many as four billion people –or an entire half the whole world's population– rely on wild species for income, food, medicines and wood fuel for cooking.
The Case For Criminalizing Ecocide
- Inter Press Service
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ROME, Feb 28 (IPS) - Genocide, war crimes, aggression, ecocide, crimes against humanity – which is the odd one out? The right answer is ecocide - destroying, polluting or damaging the natural living world on a large scale is not among the crimes that can be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Climate Displacement & Migration in South East Asia
- Inter Press Service
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 28 (IPS) - Global warming and climate breakdown are going to be disruptive to say the least. Humanity’s insistence on unsustainable development and rising greenhouse gas emissions will make the settlements of millions of people increasingly prone to extreme weather events and full-blown natural disasters.
Forests Disappearing in Energy Poor Zimbabwean Cities
- Inter Press Service
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HARARE, Feb 28 (IPS) - In New Ashdon Park, a medium-density area in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at new homes that have replaced a once thriving forest, makeshift fireplaces have become common sights as residents solely depend on firewood for energy.
World’s Largest Oil Corporation to Lead Climate Change Talks in 2023
- Inter Press Service
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QUITO, Ecuador / LA PAZ, Bolivia, Feb 27 (IPS) - The Chief Executive of the twelfth largest oil producer - Sultan Al Jaber of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) - has been appointed as president of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) COP28the biggest climate change conference that will take place in November, 2023 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Role of Regional Economic Cooperation in Inclusive Digital Transformation in Asia
- Inter Press Service
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BEIJING, The People's Republic of China, Feb 21 (IPS) - Digitalization is a key driver of competitiveness and development. As the world takes the path to unprecedented digital advancement, Asia continues to be a powerhouse of digital transformations in a wide range of areas from microchip manufacturing to electric vehicles, from digital currency to e-commerce.
A Last-Ditch Effort to Save a High Seas Treaty from Sinking
- Inter Press Service
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UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - When the United Nations began negotiations on a legally binding treaty to protect and regulate the high seas, one diplomat pointedly remarked: “It’s a jungle out there”—characterizing a wide-open ocean degraded by illegal and over-fishing, plastics pollution, indiscriminate sea bed mining and the destruction of marine eco-systems.
How the Privatization of Eletrobras May Lead To an Uncertain Future in Brazils Energy Transition and Favor Price Increase to the End-Consumer
- Inter Press Service
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NEW YORK, Feb 15 (IPS) - Eletrobras is Latin America’s biggest electricity company, responsible for around 30% of Brazil’s power capacity and 50% of all its transmission lines. In 2021, the Brazilian government announced it would reduce its controlling shares in this state-owned company from 72% to 10%. Given Eletrobras’ dominant role in Brazil’s power sector, this divestment in the government’s controlling shares merits a more complete understanding of the implications for Brazil’s energy transition and energy security.
Let’s Eat Plastics!
- Inter Press Service
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PORTLAND, USA, Feb 13 (IPS) - With one in ten people in the world going hungry, food prices hitting record highsand the worsening conditions of the environment and climate, it’s time for the world’s population of 8 billion to eat something that is available, abundant and inexpensive: plastics.
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