Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1152
U.S. Task Force Urges Climate Change Preparations
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (IPS) - The United States government is recommending new preparations aimed at protecting vulnerable communities from climate change-related disasters, a year after a major hurricane devastated swaths of the country's East Coast.
Little Islands Take On Australian Dominance
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Aug 20 (IPS) - A new Pacific islands forum will seek to challenge the dominance of Australia and New Zealand in a regional body. The new grouping's approach is being billed the ‘Pacific Way', and also the ‘green and blue' way for its commitment to environmentally sustainable oceans as well as land.
When Disaster Rains, Talk
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Aug 20 (IPS) - Gulam Rasul, chief meteorologist at the Pakistan Meteorological Department, was sure early this month that the second leg of the annual monsoon due in the latter half of the month was going to be bad. "Normally it peaks towards late August," Rasul told IPS.
Sustainable Technologies Safeguard the Soil in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 20 (IPS) - The furrows are hard to make out in fields of the Finca de Semillas, a farm on Havana's outskirts, because its administrators, Esmilda Sánchez and Raúl Aguilar, protect every centimetre of soil with mulch.
Southern Africa Shows the Way With Water
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 20 (IPS) - Water remains a key component in development policy. And, as the Southern African Development Community discusses how best to develop the region, the effective management of watercourses will be key, says Professor Anthony Turton, one of the foremost experts on water policy in southern Africa and a trustee of the Water Stewardship Council of Southern Africa.
Norway Sets Example in Audit of Poor Countries’ Debts
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners are celebrating the Norwegian government's release of an external audit of all outstanding public debts it is owed by developing countries, the first time any country has undertaken such a process.
Caribbean Economies Battered by Storms
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 19 (IPS) - The Caribbean is in danger of becoming "a region of serial defaulters" with respect to international debt obligations, according to one expert, and this may partly be due to its economies suffering frequent shocks from natural disasters.
Violence Against Civilians Peaks in Central African Republic
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (IPS) - As Michel Djotodia took his oath as the new president of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Aug. 18, Séléka, the coalition of rebel groups that he led and that helped him overthrow the government on Mar. 23, were still looting and killing civilians.
Ecological Cuban Recipes Boost Sustainable Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 19 (IPS) - Vilda Figueroa and her husband, José Lama, live in Marianao on the outskirts of Havana, where they share hundreds of recipes based on Cuban-grown foods and sun-drying, along with other ecological food preservation methods.
What Egypt Is Blind To
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Aug 19 (IPS) - Dina Gamal, whose 10-year-old son was born blind, says it is not him but Egyptian society that lives in the dark.
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