Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1120
Little Preparation for a Great Disaster
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Nov 12 (IPS) - Despite the government's early warnings and evacuation of up to 800,000 people from vulnerable areas, the category 5 - the highest level - Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda to Filipinos) has left some communities and coastal zones in the central Philippine islands of Visayas in complete ruins.
Gaps Threaten Conflict Minerals Certification
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - Countries in Africa's Great Lakes region are moving too slowly on an international plan to certify the sourcing of "conflict minerals", researchers here are warning, a failure that could threaten the entire certification process.
Small Islands Demand U.N. Protection
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 11 (IPS) - Threatened by rising seas, some of the world's small island developing states (SIDS) are demanding that the U.N.'s new set of Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on the protection of oceans and marine resources.
Mining Takes a Bite Out of Guyana's Amazon
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Nov 11 (IPS) - Guyana is engaged in a balancing act to save its rainforest, regarded as a living treasure, from the destructive activities of miners digging their way to another kind of treasure buried beneath this fragile ecosystem.
OP-ED: A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - Eight decades ago, during the Great Depression, newly elected U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal consisting of a number of mutually supporting initiatives of which the most prominent were:
Opportunity Knocking
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - A sense of urgency brought on in recent years by food price volatility inspired collective action to reduce the likelihood of further price spikes and food supply shocks.
This Bird Has Flown - Forever
- Inter Press Service
CAJÍO, Cuba/RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 11 (IPS) - The extinction of a single species (a fish off the coast of Cuba, a bird in the Brazilian forest) creates a void that can trigger a whole series of repercussions, from the alteration of ecosystems to increased hunger.
Ethiopia’s Indigenous Excluded from Rapid Growth
- Inter Press Service
OMO VALLEY, Ethiopia, Nov 11 (IPS) - As the construction of a major transmission line to export electricity generated from one of Ethiopia's major hydropower projects gets underway, there are growing concerns that pastoralist communities living in the region are under threat.
Foul Play Ahead of Russian Olympics
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Nov 11 (IPS) - Despite an endorsement from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for their adherence to environmental standards in preparations for next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russian authorities are cracking down harder and harder on people trying to expose the environmental cost of projects related to the Games.
Closer, But No Deal Over Iran’s Nuclear Programme
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Nov 10 (IPS) - Despite rising hopes amid an unexpected turn of events, negotiations here between Iran and six world powers have ended without an agreement over Tehran's nuclear programme.
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