Global Issues
News headlines for “Nature and Animal Conservation”, page 5
The Silent War Before COP30: How Corporations Are Weaponising the Law to Muzzle Climate Defenders
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 10 (IPS) - As the world prepares for the next COP30 summit, a quieter battle is raging in courtrooms. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are the fossil-fuel industry’s new favourite weapon, turning justice systems into instruments of intimidation.
Turning Indigenous Territories From ‘Sacrifice’ Zones to Thriving Forest Ecosystems
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India & BELÉM, Brazil, November 8 (IPS) - A report by the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC) and Earth Insight paints a stark picture of how extractive industries, deforestation, and climate change are converging to endanger the world’s last intact tropical forests and the Indigenous Peoples who protect them.
Brazil’s Biofuels Push Undermines Environmental Integrity at COP30
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 7 (IPS) - President Prabowo Subianto welcomed his counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil to Jakarta recently to strengthen ties between the fast-growing economies.
US Skips High-Level Presence at COP30 Climate Summit
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, November 7 (IPS) - “Has the world given up fighting climate change?” was a rhetorical question posed recently by the New York Times, perhaps with a degree of sarcasm. It might look that way, says Christiana Figueres, a founding partner of the nongovernmental organization Global Optimism, “as US president Donald Trump blusters about fossil fuel, Bill Gates prioritizes children’s health over climate protection, and oil and gas companies plan decades of higher production.”
What’s Now Needed is Political Courage, Says UN SG Guterres at COP30
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil & JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, November 6 (IPS) - Political courage is the biggest obstacle to limiting the rise in global average temperature to no more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Hurricane Melissa Devastates The Caribbean As The UN Distributes Lifesaving Aid
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, November 6 (IPS) - In late October, Hurricane Melissa, a powerful Category 5 storm, made landfall in the Caribbean, causing catastrophic damage to civilian infrastructure and a devastating loss of life. Humanitarian agencies have mobilized on the ground to deliver urgent assistance to affected communities facing widespread destruction of homes, mass displacement, fatalities, and severe shortages of essential services, including food, water, medicine, shelter, and electricity.
The World’s Forests Cannot Wait: Why COP30 Must Center Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Leadership
- Inter Press Service
NAPO, Amazonia, Ecuador / NEW YORK, November 6 (IPS) - As world leaders prepare to gather in Brazil for COP30 next week, they will convene in the heart of the Amazon — a fitting location for what must become a turning point in how the world addresses the intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Deliver Emission Cuts, or Risk Locking the World Into ‘Catastrophic Warming’
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, November 5 (IPS) - The world is falling dangerously short of meeting the Paris Agreement goals, with global greenhouse gas emissions rising to record levels and current national pledges still far off the mark, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in its Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target.
COP30: New Faces, Old Issues: What Must Change if Global Climate Talks Are to Deliver Justice for Africa
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia / ABUJA, Nigeria , November 5 (IPS) - Three decades after the first Climate COP, the multilateral climate process – which was intended to serve as an instrument of justice and a guardian of the planet’s atmosphere – has fallen far short of its goals.
COP30: The Real Solution to Climate Change Could be Through International Law
- Inter Press Service
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, November 5 (IPS) - At COP15, the developing countries were calling for the temperature to not rise above 1.5 degrees and they ignored the Copenhagen Accord which agreed to 2.0 degrees
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