Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1378
Biomass Plantations Can Power India
- Inter Press Service
A group of women working in a tree-shaded nursery in this arid part of southern Tamil Nadu state is helping to manage India’s very first biomass energy plantation.
Q&A: A Green Economy Without a Pricetag on Nature?
- Inter Press Service
As thousands gear up for the 2012 Earth Summit, Rio+20, scheduled to kick off in Brazil on Jun. 20, questions on the viability and adequacy of a ‘green economy’ abound.
Parliamentarians Pledge Support for Reproductive Health Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Participants at the Fifth International Parliamentarians’ Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) ended their meeting here Friday with a joint pledge to advocate for increased funding for full implementation of the decades-old ICPD Programme of Action.
Forests Dying in South Sudan Violence
- Inter Press Service
South Sudan is losing its forests. And with no unified policy to deal with the situation the government is at odds, with one ministry saying that the loss of forests is a necessity for farming and another warning of the dire environmental consequences if this continues unchecked.
Selling Ethanol Stoves in Mozambique to Generate Carbon Credits
- Inter Press Service
Along a dirt road in Mozambique’s Sofala province, a long line of men on bicycles stretches into the distance, each carrying an impossibly big bag of charcoal strapped to his bike.
Global Temperatures Rising on a Devastating Trajectory
- Inter Press Service
Climate-heating carbon emissions set a record high in 2011, in a 3.2 percent increase over the previous year, the International Energy Agency reported this week. The main reason for this dangerous increase is that governments are failing to implement policies to prevent catastrophic increases of global temperatures.
Peru — Megadiverse, and Biodiversity-Aware
- Inter Press Service
One of every two Peruvians knows what 'biodiversity' means, and most would stop buying products that are not socially or environmentally responsible, according to an international survey that for the first time included this megadiverse South American country.
Grim News for Caribbean Economies
- Inter Press Service
For yet another occasion, it was not the good news Caribbean leaders wanted to hear.
Will Rio+20 Spark a Green Revolution?
- Inter Press Service
Think of Rio+20 as the hothouse to grow the green ideas and values humanity needs to thrive in the 21st century.
OP-ED: The Paradox of Losing Life While Giving Life in Africa
- Inter Press Service
Three years ago, the African Union began a continent-wide campaign to reduce the number of women who die when pregnant or giving birth.
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