Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1444
Paper Industry Decimating Indonesia's Tigers
- Inter Press Service
The survival of Sumatra's tigers, elephants, orangutans, rhinos, as well as indigenous communities, is threatened by the 'world's fastest deforestation rate', caused by none other than the pulp and paper industry, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Community Station in Mexico Conquers Airwaves and Internet
- Inter Press Service
It’s always cold in this city in Mexico’s Sierra Nevada mountains, more than 2,400 metres above sea level, at the foot of the Popocatépetl volcano.
ECONOMY-EU: Portugal, Greece Pose Risk of Contagion
- Inter Press Service
The flood of economic woes devastating Greece and Portugal are evidence that the German prescription imposed by a troika of multilateral creditors is not working, and that both countries are heading into a blind alley, says economics professor Mario Olivares.
Imagining a Better World Is First Step to Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
Humanity's failure to halt the deepening planetary emergency of climate change, extinctions of species and overconsumption of resources is a failure of imagination and mistaken beliefs that we act rationally.
OP-ED: How Gender Values Point the Way for a More Effective U.N.
- Inter Press Service
A growing list of U.N. Security Council Resolutions acknowledges the importance of gender in processes for peace. Resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888, 1889 and 1960 note that women continue to be marginalised in peace negotiations and their potential is not fully utilised in humanitarian planning, peacekeeping operations, peace building, governance and reconstruction.
Native Farmers in Mexico Help Drive Local Eco-Friendly Farming
- Inter Press Service
The largely invisible work of small local groups of indigenous farmers in Mexico who are spearheading the defence of their territory and identity and of native seeds is strengthening ecologically sound family farming, experts say.
Instant Infant HIV Diagnosis to be Rolled Out in Rural Kenya
- Inter Press Service
Jesse Mtembe, a nursing officer at the Akithenesit Health Centre in Teso North, in Kenya’s Western Province, cannot wait for his centre to be connected to a new software system for diagnosing HIV in infants that is being developed in the country’s leading private university.
Q&A: ‘World Bank in Tiger Territory — No Greenwashing’
- Inter Press Service
When World Bank president Robert Zoellick steps down in June, the tiger will lose an ally who worked to prevent the decimation of Asia’s iconic animal by a voracious demand for its bones and parts in newly affluent China.
Building Sustainable Future Needs More Than Science, Experts Say
- Inter Press Service
Contrary to popular belief, humans have failed to address the earth's worsening emergencies of climate change, species' extinction and resource overconsumption not because of a lack of information, but because of a lack of imagination, social scientists and artists say.
Rights Groups Warn Against Diluted Arms Trade Treaty
- Inter Press Service
After a week of tense negotiations, a United Nations preparatory committee concluded a final round of talks on Friday to define the rules of procedure for a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which is expected to be finalised in July this year.
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