Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1489
AFGHANISTAN: Fears of Being Left in the Cold after Pullout of Troops
- Inter Press Service
With the majority of international troops expected to withdraw over the next three years, there are growing doubts over donors' commitments to continue to support Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world.
South-South Ties Reshape Aid Paradigm
- Inter Press Service
When the G-8 countries, comprising the world’s largest industrialised nations, decided that improving Internet access to developing countries should be a priority, scores of leaders from developing world opposed the move.
CHINA: Slowing Down in Search of Happiness
- Inter Press Service
Chinese essayist Zhou Zuoren once wrote that China should be experienced on a small wooden boat slowly gliding on its rivers, taking in its views. But arriving in Shanghai on the country's most advanced high-speed railway leaves little doubt that slow boats are no longer the way to romanticise China of today.
CHINA: Slowing Down in Search of Happiness
- Inter Press Service
Chinese essayist Zhou Zuoren once wrote that China should be experienced on a small wooden boat slowly gliding on its rivers, taking in its views. But arriving in Shanghai on the country's most advanced high-speed railway leaves little doubt that slow boats are no longer the way to romanticise China of today.
MALAWI: Changing Climate Compounds Environmental Degradation
- Inter Press Service
As Daniel Chakunkha and Mussa Abu talk on the side of a dirt path in Makunje village, Malawi, a steady stream of bicycles loaded with charcoal passes by. The men stand at the halfway mark between Mwanza, a small city in the country’s southwest, and Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial hub.
ENVIRONMENT: Seeing the Trees In The Year Of Forests
- Inter Press Service
When firefighters arrived to put out a blaze that was engulfing the home of Elise Inversin on the French island of Corsica, the 66-year-old grandmother told firemen to forget about her house and save a neighbouring 900-year-old Mastic tree. The house could be rebuilt, she said.
New Deal for Donors and Recipients at Busan?
- Inter Press Service
The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4), starting in this port city on Tuesday, will examine why international donor assistance worth trillions of dollars spent over decades has failed to eradicate poverty.
U.S.: World's Tallest Solar Tower Set for Arizona
- Inter Press Service
In the western desert state of Arizona, a company called EnviroMission is planning to build a new solar tower, the first of its kind, an ambitious new way to produce energy with heat from the sun.
Mobilising Men to End Violence Against Women
- Inter Press Service
Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women (U.N. Trust Fund) has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around the world, but even these resources fall far short, meeting less than five percent of demand.
Q&A: Durban Must Ensure That 'Words Become Reality'
- Inter Press Service
Involving women in decision-making and resource management is a basic necessity for any effective plan to address the multi- layered and life-threatening consequences of climate change, says the head of UN Women.
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