Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1139
TransBrasil Could Boost Integration in Rio de Janeiro
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 25 (IPS) - The TransBrasil bus rapid transit system, which will connect poor suburbs with the centre of Rio de Janeiro, will be the high-speed bus corridor that serves the largest number of commuters in the world.
OP-ED: Sustainable Development Goals After 2015
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached: At least 870 million people worldwide – and one child in five – still go hungry; this in a world where we already produce enough food today to feed nine billion people in 2050.
Tallying the Benefits of Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - More than a half-dozen governments on Tuesday launched a yearlong collaborative investigation into the economic benefits of taking broad action to combat global climate action.
Pressure Mounts to Cap Airline Emissions
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - A contentious global agreement on how to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the global airline industry will be at the top of the agenda over the next two weeks at an international summit, potentially solidifying details that have yet to emerge after more than a decade and a half of talks.
Ladakh Invites New Scarcities
- Inter Press Service
LADAKH, India, Sep 24 (IPS) - The Ladakh of today is a different world from the one Skarma Namgiyal remembers as a child. Back then, he had taken for granted the breathtaking beauty of its landscape, the purity of the cold mountain air, and the sweet taste of water in its streams.
Making Local People Stewards of the Earth
- Inter Press Service
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, Sep 23 (IPS) - The lack of land rights is a crisis not just for local people but for all of humanity, warned organisers at an international conference here.
Trinidad's Farmers Outpaced by Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Sep 23 (IPS) - Dalchan Singh, a root crop farmer and board member of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, says the past year has seen drastic changes in the weather of this twin-island Caribbean nation.
Israel Silent on Chemical Weapons
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Sep 23 (IPS) - "Does Israel have chemical weapons too?" is the question posed by the U.S. publication Foreign Policy, citing a newly uncovered CIA document from 1983 which alleged that Israel is likely to have developed such weapons.
Terrorists Rob Somalia of Healthcare
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 23 (IPS) - Maryan Yusuf, 39, is weak and barely able to speak because of her excruciating pain. A few hours earlier she delivered a baby at Somalia's Afgooye Hospital, where essential drugs are dwindling at an alarming rate.
Boats of Hope Head for Australian Rocks
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sep 22 (IPS) - It was a decision based on simple sums. Ananda, 28, from Weligama in the southern Sri Lankan district Matara decided to risk it all boarding a boat to Australia last year because he never had enough money.
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