Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1230
Guarded Optimism Over Iran Nuclear Talks
- Inter Press Service
ALMATY, Apr 04 (IPS) - With talks over Iran's nuclear ambitions set to resume Apr. 5 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, there is guarded optimism that negotiators can build on the moderate breakthroughs made in discussions held earlier this year.
Investing in Renewable Energy Means Investing in Lives
- Inter Press Service
PORT-LOUIS, Apr 04 (IPS) - Residents of Albion, a small village in Pointe-aux-Caves, western Mauritius, say that by opposing the construction of a new coal power plant near their homes, they are defending their constitutional right to live.
Report Calls to Engage Iran’s People While Preventing Nuke
- Inter Press Service
Solar Energy and Briquettes Make Headway in Haiti
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Apr 04 (IPS) - While Jean Reniteau mulls over the idea of using solar panels to light his house, Frantz Fanfan is wondering how to expand production of biomass briquettes to replace the use of charcoal in the cooking stoves of most of the Haitian people, who lack electricity.
New Brazilian Research Centre Focuses on Health Risks of Smoking
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 04 (IPS) - Brazil has taken another step to combat the harmful habit of smoking with the creation of the Centre for Studies on Tobacco and Health (CETAB).
Social Forum Spawns a New Form of Solidarity
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Apr 04 (IPS) - The conference drew both supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad; conflicting opinions about the Polisario Front and the politics of Western Sahara; Palestinian activists and the Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. In short, the 13th edition of the World Social Forum, held in Tunis on Mar. 26-30, was a melting pot of struggles and a search for common ground.
As Iraq Becomes 'Iran-Like'
- Inter Press Service
MOSUL, Iraq, Apr 04 (IPS) - Armoured vehicles and thousands of soldiers masked in black balaclavas guard the entrance to the city of Mosul, 350 kilometres northwest of Baghdad. Arriving here gives one the unmistakable feeling of entering a territory that is still under occupation – only this time, the Iraqi Federal soldiers, not the U.S. military, play the role of the occupying army, locals tell IPS.
Libyans ‘Fighting Drug Dealers for Our Country’
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Apr 04 (IPS) - In Libya, a dose of LSD or the painkiller tramadol costs 78 cents, and a joint of cannabis is 7.80 dollars. Here, drugs are affordable to the poor for a simple reason. "Slashing prices is a way to create demand and open up a market," a Western diplomat tells IPS in Tripoli, the capital.
For Climate Action, 2013 “Good as It’ll Get”: Nicholas Stern
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 03 (IPS) - A confluence of factors could make 2013 the most fruitful opportunity in years – and for years – for potentially major action on climate change, according to a leading voice on climate change policy, the British economist Nicholas Stern.
Leaking Pipeline Offers Warning on Keystone XL Proposal
- Inter Press Service
, Apr 03 (IPS) - Environmental groups are sounding alarms about conflicting reports on the size and seriousness of an oil spill that took place late last week in the southern U.S. state of Arkansas.
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