News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 67
Digital Trade & the Sustainable Development Goals: A Dynamic Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 12 (IPS) - The rapid growth of digitalization has fundamentally altered commerce, impacting production and facilitating the movement of goods. The 2023 Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report (APTIR), has pointed out that although digital trade revenues of Asia and the Pacific account for a significant share of global trade, this growth is uneven, with trade concentrated in a few areas, leading to disparities across the region.
Invest in Research to Protect Crops from Future Flooding
- Inter Press Service
URBANA, Illinois, US, Aug 09 (IPS) - Tropical Storm Debby has resulted in record-setting rain and flooding events across several States, including Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and parts of Georgia and left a trail of damage including leaving Florida crops flooded.
Small Farmers Feeling Climate Change Heat Find Little Support From the State
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 09 (IPS) - The over 20 million residents of Pakistan's port city of Karachi, in Sindh province in particular, have been experiencing brutal heat since May. But they are not the only ones bearing the brunt of high temperatures and humidity.
Indigenous Peoples -- An Antidote in a World of Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 09 (IPS) - This year's Equator Prize winners are the antidote we need in a world of crisis. Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum released its annual Risk Report. The key findings highlighted the inescapable trend over the past decade that we are facing a global polycrisis, in which problems of biodiversity loss, climate change, inequality, water scarcity and conflict are increasingly indivisible, simultaneous, and systemic.
Pacific Community Photographic Winners Bring Impacts of Climate Change to Life
- Inter Press Service
PACIFIC ISLANDS, Aug 08 (IPS) - The Pacific Community's photographic competition winners reflect the devastating climate impacts on beautiful and sensitive environments, documenting the most pressing issues the communities who live on the islands face today.
Explainer: Why Kenya is Considered a High Climate Risk for Development Banks
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 07 (IPS) - Climate change-related extreme weather jeopardizes Kenya's development agenda; even though it contributes very little to global warming, it is marked as a high-risk country by development banks.Kenya contributes less than 0.1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions every year, yet development banks have flagged the East African nation as a high climate risk. This is due to extreme weather changes that are increasingly threatening the country's development agenda, widening socio-economic inequalities, and deepening rural poverty and hunger.
Water Stories: The Well Seven Families and 400 Buffaloes Rely On
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Aug 07 (IPS) - In the rural village of Khardariya in the Dang district of Nepal, access to clean water is a major issue. Villagers depend on one poorly managed well for drinking water, cleaning, and feeding livestock.
ECUADOR: ‘We demand that the violation of the rights of nature be recognised and reversed’
- Inter Press Service
Aug 07 (IPS) - CIVICUS speaks with Darío Iza Pilaquinga, president of the Kitu Kara People of the Kichwa nationality of Ecuador, about a historic court ruling that applied a constitutional provision recognising the rights of nature.
Pivotal Shift at Seabed Authority: Nations Rally for Deep-Sea Mining Moratorium
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug 07 (IPS) - The International Seabed Authority (ISA) Assembly meeting concluded last week with no mining authorized, an unprecedented number of States calling for a moratorium or precautionary pause and a new Secretary-General elected.
ECOWAS at 49: Successes in Regional Integration, Despite Emerging Challenges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 6 2024 (IPS) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was founded in 1975 to promote economic integration in the region. Forty-nine years later, the regional bloc boasts significant successes in integration, peace and security and good governance, but also faces some challenges.
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