Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1115
Multinationals' Interest Grows in Sustainable Bioplastics
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Eight major multinational consumer products companies have come together to investigate whether it is possible to produce a sustainable form of "bioplastic", made from plants rather than petroleum products.
Storm Brews at U.N. Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 21 (IPS) - Hundreds of representatives from various NGOs walked out of the negotiating rooms at the United Nations climate talks in Poland on Thursday in protest against the reluctance by developed nations to commit towards achieving a global climate treaty.
Trinidadian Fishers Choose Jail over “Seismic Bombing”
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Nov 21 (IPS) - The demonstration took place on land and sea simultaneously. In the end, police had arrested three people, including Gary Aboud, president of the Trinidadian NGO Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS), but protesters were undaunted. They would be back.
Fears Rise of ‘Taliban-Style’ Justice in Syria
- Inter Press Service
IDLIB PROVINCE, Syria, Nov 21 (IPS) - Concerns are rising that courts run by Islamic clerics in many of Syria's rebel-held areas may serve as a prelude to Taliban-style justice in what was long a violently repressive but secular state.
Fear of HIV Testing Among Zimbabwe’s Teens
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Nov 21 (IPS) - Seventeen-year-old Natalie Mlambo* has two good reasons to get tested for HIV. She has two boyfriends and has unprotected sex with them. One is a high school classmate. The other is older, works in a bank, and can afford to give Mlambo small gifts and some money.
Guarded Tone in Geneva as Negotiators Seek Iran Accord
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Nov 21 (IPS) - Amidst rising expectations of a breakthrough, Iran and six world powers Wednesday resumed their quest for a deal on Iran's controversial nuclear programme that seemed just within reach earlier this month.
Keeping the Philippines from Becoming Another Haiti
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Nearly two weeks after Typhoon Haiyan devastated parts of the central Philippines, experts and activists here are warning that post-disaster reconstruction needs to be more transparent than past such efforts, while also focusing on a long-term assistance strategy that goes beyond immediate emergency relief.
U.N. Climate Meet Becomes About "Not Losing Ground"
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 20 (IPS) - Diann Black-Layne grew up in a single parent home with nine siblings on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua. Still, life was easygoing and enjoyable, she recalls. For her, it was paradise.
Oil Palm Changes Rural Culture in Brazilian Amazon
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 20 (IPS) - Thousands of small farming families in Pará, in the Amazon jungle in northeast Brazil, have turned to the African oil palm as a new source of income, through contracts with biofuel companies. Strange bedfellows, which poses cultural and economic challenges.
Malawi’s Failed Subsidy Programme Left Millions to Starve
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Nov 20 (IPS) - Gogo Munthali, from Rumphi, a village over 400 km north of Malawi's capital Lilongwe, dissolves into tears every morning as she worries about what to feed her five orphaned grandchildren, the youngest of whom has full blown AIDS.
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