Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1494
AFRICA: Wanted: Greener Cities
- Inter Press Service
In Africa, where urbanisation will be one of the major developments over the next few decades, it will be key for cities to figure out how to handle rapid urban expansion and much-needed economic growth, while creating more environmentally-friendly cities and reducing their carbon footprint at the same time.
Microfinance Works - For the Rich
- Inter Press Service
Jesús Guerra, a volunteer at this week’s Fifth Global Microcredit Summit in this Spanish town, was nonplussed by the expensive gold watch sported by a banker from a developing country.
CENTRAL ASIA: Together They Lose
- Inter Press Service
Rarely have so many donor countries spent so much for so long to achieve so little. In fact, the scores of Western countries ranging from the Netherlands to the United States that have tried for 20 years to coax the Central Asian nations to use their water cooperatively and create a win-win situation for all have found that the Central Asians are cooperating less and less, not more and more.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Himalayan Task Ahead
- Inter Press Service
Prime ministers of Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and India gather here on Saturday (Nov. 19) for the 'Climate Summit for a Living Himalayas', aiming to adopt an ambitious ten-year roadmap for regional adaptation strategies.
AFRICA: Change the Donors Climate
- Inter Press Service
When donor-funded horticultural projects failed in Kalacha village at the edge of the Chalbi Desert in North Eastern Province, Kenya, the local pastoralist community proposed their own idea, which turned out to be the solution to their problems.
The Rush for Oil in West Africa — The New Wild West?
- Inter Press Service
There is a new oil rush off the coast of West Africa. But there are fears that the sector is not sufficiently regulated, and watchdog groups are raising concerns about transparency and governance in the region.
U.S.: Occupy Movement Pushes Back in Coordinated Day of Action
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of people in hundreds of cities across the country flooded streets, public squares and university campuses in the largest nationwide action since the first group of occupiers set up its encampment in New York City exactly two months ago Thursday.
US-IRAN: Key Senator Pushes 'Nuclear Option' Against Central Bank
- Inter Press Service
Amid simmering tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear programme, a key pro-Israel U.S. senator has tabled legislation that would effectively ban international financial companies that do business with the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) from participating in the U.S. economy.
Q&A: The Finer Points of Rising Sea Levels
- Inter Press Service
Long before the Pacific will rise to a level that will leave its estimated 30,000 islands submerged, most of them might be severely affected by frequent flooding and storms.
Global South Needs New Path of Development
- Inter Press Service
The convergence of leading countries from the global South - China, India, Brazil and South Africa, among others - to assist the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere constitutes a new 'dynamic' in the emerging global economic partnerships, says the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
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