News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 93
Innovative Gender Bond Series Uplifts Rural Women to Drive Climate Action in Asia
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 22 (IPS) - Rural women across Asia play a key role producing, processing, and trading agricultural products, and are often the primary users and managers of natural resources.
A Sperm Whale Reserve for All of Us
- Inter Press Service
RUSEAU, Nov 21 (IPS) - Roosevelt Skerrit is Prime Minister of DominicaIn Dominica, we are privileged to have over 50 Sperm Whale families living in the calm waters off our western coast as fellow citizens. Living in matrilineal societies led by grandmothers and mothers, these enormous creatures spend time in our waters diving deep for squid, giving birth and raising their young.
Improving Livestock Health Is a Net Positive Move Towards Net Zero
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov 21 (IPS) - The recent downturn in sales of alternative meat products is only the latest evidence that the world is unlikely to give up animal protein completely in the long run.
Accelerating Change: Global Call to Action on World Toilet Day to Meet 2030 Sanitation Goals
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, Nov 19 (IPS) - World Toilet Day 2023, on 19 November, focusing on ‘Accelerating Change’ - Toilets are a foundation stone of public health and play a critical role in protecting the environment”Celebrated annually on the 19th of November, World Toilet Day aims to inspire concerted efforts in addressing the pressing global sanitation crisis, which currently leaves approximately 3.5 billion people without access to safely managed sanitation.
COP28: Climate Summit in Closed Civic Space
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - The need to act on the climate crisis has never been clearer. In 2023, heat records have been shattered around the world. Seemingly every day brings news of extreme weather, imperilling lives. In July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres grimly announced that ‘the era of global boiling has arrived’.
Good for Girls and Good for the Planet: Eco-Friendly Sanitary Towels
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 16 (IPS) - ’Going Green’ seems to Dr Jacquline Kisato's favorite catchphrase as she passionately explains her eco-friendly sanitary towel, a product she expects will help empower women and young girls while also putting money into farmers’ pockets.
Time to Convert Climate Change Rhetoric into Action, Says WFP's Gernot Laganda
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, INDIA, Nov 14 (IPS) - 'If you ask what climate justice is, then the litmus test for climate justice is at the local level. So, climate justice needs to be judged by how many people are protected from climate-vulnerable conditions that they have no hand in creating.' – Gernot Laganda, Director of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
It is crucial to narrow the gaps and ensure that climate finance goes to where people are most vulnerable, says Gernot Laganda, Director of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)—especially as the most fragile states only receive USD 2.1 per capita while non-fragile states receive USD 161.
Carbon Market Greenwashing Systems Deepen Inequalities in Global South - Experts
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 10 (IPS) - Somalia, Syria, DRC Congo, Afghanistan, Yemen, Chad, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Nigeria, and Ethiopia are the 10 countries at greatest risk of climate disaster globally despite collectively contributing just 0.28 percent of global CO2 emissions. A climate-induced humanitarian crisis continues to unfold across these countries and many others in the global South, including Kenya, which declared drought a national disaster in September 2021.
Recognizing Food & Land-Use Systems as Contributors to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Nov 10 (IPS) - For a long time, the agriculture sector has been heralded as a success story for India. Spurred by the Green Revolution, it provided a path-breaking solution to feed the country's burgeoning population starting in the 1960s.
Fast-Track Climate Resilience Building of Small and Vulnerable Nations Ahead of COP28
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 08 (IPS) - As the countdown to COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, continues, IPS caught up with Dr Oldman Koboto, Mauritius-based Manager for the Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub (CCFAH).
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