Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1211
Chile Looks to Volcanoes and Geysers for Energy
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, May 08 (IPS) - Chile is one of the countries with the greatest potential for geothermal energy development in Latin America, but a lack of incentives for investment in the sector has kept it from moving past the exploratory phase. A strategic partnership with New Zealand aims to change that situation.
Institutional Tangles, Deindustrialisation Hurt Mercosur
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 08 (IPS) - July will mark the start of a new era for the Common Southern Market (Mercosur), when it will expand to five full members, if the South American bloc manages to overcome the commotion caused by the admission of Venezuela and the suspension of Paraguay.
Still Homeless, Two Decades Later
- Inter Press Service
PUTTALAM, Sri Lanka, May 08 (IPS) - The camp should not have been difficult to find. We were told to drive straight on the road that leads north away from the town of Puttalam, 140 kilometres from Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, and we would come upon the settlement of internally displaced people.
Skilled Midwives May be the Key to Healthy Babies
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 08 (IPS) - The story goes like this: a young mother lies quietly in a dimly lit room having just given birth to her baby. For the next seven days she watches over the child with caution, nursing and swaddling it patiently. Fearful that the infant will not survive past a few days, she refuses to give it a name.
An Election for Iran or the Supreme Leader?
- Inter Press Service
TEHRAN, May 07 (IPS) - As the five-day registration period for presidential candidates began here Tuesday, the question of whether Iran's upcoming election will represent the will of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or the people of Iran is uppermost on many people's minds, including those of the potential candidates.
Climate Change Adaptation: A Race Against Time
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, May 07 (IPS) - Adaptation and mitigation. Identified by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and by scientists as the two major responses to address the problem, these were also the twin preoccupations of a climate change conference held recently in Dhaka.
Critics Slam California “Forest Offset” Plan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 07 (IPS) - More than two dozen environmental organisations are urging California Governor Jerry Brown to disregard recommendations from a United Nations task force to include so-called forest "offsets" in the state's new emissions-trading scheme.
Climate Change Makes Life Tougher for Solomon Island Farmers
- Inter Press Service
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, May 07 (IPS) - Life is difficult enough for communities on the remote southern Weather Coast of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Sustaining a livelihood from the land is a daily struggle on the steep coastal mountain slopes that plunge to the sea, made worse by the absence of adequate roads, transport and government services. And now, climate change is taking its toll on the already precarious food situation here.
Migrant Children Struggle to Learn
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, May 07 (IPS) - In the hustle and bustle of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, a small learning centre located in the Bang Bon district is helping children hailing mostly from the war-torn provinces of Myanmar (Burma) gain access to a basic education.
Q&A: The Security of a Nation Is Its Women
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 07 (IPS) - Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a human rights lawyer and the general secretary of the global rights network World YWCA, knows what it is like to struggle against poverty and violence: she herself comes from a poor family in Magaya village in Murewa district, which lies northeast of Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
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