Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1376
Energy Agency Looks to Natural Gas 'Golden Age'
- Inter Press Service
If a series of 'golden rules' can be followed, a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggests, global natural gas usage could grow by more than 50 percent by 2035.
Indonesian Immigrants Suffer in Silence
- Inter Press Service
Foreign workers, mostly from Indonesia, now make up just over 10 percent of Malaysia’s workforce of 14 million people, both in the formal and informal sectors, according to the latest government statistics.
Climate Change and Family Planning - Twin Issues for LDCs
- Inter Press Service
The reproductive rights agenda, from improving women’s access to education to systematic family planning to reducing birth rates and combating poverty, has become a cornerstone of most industrialised nations’ development policies toward the least developed countries (LDCs), comprised primarily of sub-Saharan African states.
Independent Media Losing Foothold in Morocco
- Inter Press Service
The Moroccan government’s announcement that it would issue new public media guidelines at the end of May has reignited a stormy debate around independent media in the kingdom.
Barbados Begins New Drive to Bolster Local Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
Mere weeks ago Arthur Smith, who has been farming here for more than 20 years, was dangling thousands of carrots in front of local consumers, but there were no buyers to be had.
Chinese Women Step Forward in the Backwaters
- Inter Press Service
For years Gou Suqin had to rely on her husband’s meagre migrant’s income from the city to support their rural family. Now, following a 10,000 RMB (1,500 dollars) microcredit loan from UN Women, 50-year-old Gou runs a successful musk deer farm. She now earns 60,000 RMB (9,000 dollars) a year - or six times as much as her husband.
OP-ED: Rio+20 is Everyone's Conference
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, otherwise known as Rio+20, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
Rural Women in Peru Key to Adaptation of Seeds to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
For ages, rural women in the Peruvian highlands have been selecting and storing seeds, ensuring their preservation. But the authorities have failed to tap into this storehouse of knowledge and experience, despite the contributions it could make to the design of effective policies for adaptation to climate change, which poses a growing threat to the women’s livelihoods.
Runaway Gold Prices Spark Major Headaches for Guyana
- Inter Press Service
Fabian George drank and generally used water from jungle rivers near his mountainside home for decades until world market prices for gold began climbing in recent years.
Native Canadians See Way of Life Under Assault
- Inter Press Service
Canada's West Coast First Nations are feeling overwhelmed by crises affecting their land rights, economic well-being and health, prompting warnings in one territorial dispute with a local energy company that the country risks a degeneration of Aboriginal-federal government relations to a level unseen in two decades.
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