Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1390
Major Effort to Reduce Child Mortality Not Enough
- Inter Press Service
Ghana has taken a major step towards reducing its under-five mortality rate by becoming the first African country to introduce two new vaccines for rotavirus and pneumococcal disease.
Water Conflicts Move Up on U.S. Security Agenda
- Inter Press Service
On Wednesday, the United States intelligence community unveiled a first-ever assessment of global water-security issues.
China Key to Green Tech Innovation?
- Inter Press Service
With U.S. federal funding sources for renewable energy sources already drying up, coupled with a newfound antipathy towards 'green' issues issue here in Washington, some are suggesting that China could offer an important opportunity for the future of renewables in the United States and around the world.
Q&A: Mother Earth Should Not Be 'Owned, Privatised and Exploited'
- Inter Press Service
For centuries, indigenous peoples and their rights, resources and lands have been exploited. Yet long overdue acknowledgment of past exploitation and dedicated efforts by indigenous peoples have done little to end or prevent violations of the present, despite their brutal consequences for the health of the planet, stated indigenous leaders in the Manaus Declaration of 2011.
OP-ED: Waiting for Copernicus
- Inter Press Service
It's happening in Buenos Aires. It's happening in Paris and in Athens. It's even happening at the World Bank headquarters.
Tunisia's Revolution is Just Beginning
- Inter Press Service
Lingering violence, intolerance and oppression in Tunisia, following the ousting of former dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, tells the revolutionaries who sparked the Arab Spring that their work is just beginning.
Q&A: Protecting Oceans Equals Protecting Our Planet
- Inter Press Service
The U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), whose mandate includes the preservation and protection of the world's fast-degrading oceans, will play a pivotal role in Expo 2012, an international exhibition to be formally opened later this week in the coastal town of Yeosu in South Korea.
Argentina Will Try to Double Number of Engineering Graduates
- Inter Press Service
An educational stimulus programme launched in Argentina is aimed at doubling the number of engineering graduates by 2021, in an attempt to fulfil unmet growing demand from industry.
Africa’s Two Female Presidents Join Forces for Women
- Inter Press Service
The only two female heads of state in Africa, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda, have just committed to using their positions to improve the lives of women across the continent.
Renewable Energies Need New Incentives
- Inter Press Service
Clean, renewable energies contribute to economic growth and job creation while decreasing dependency on imports. This is why governments should be increasing incentives for the development of renewable energy during a crisis like the one facing Europe today, German engineer Björn Pieprzyk told Tierramérica.
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