News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 174
Experts call for Improved Protection of African Fisheries
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Nov 11 (IPS) - With subsidies of global fisheries back on the World Trade Organisation’s agenda, experts are calling for African governments to upscale the protection of the sector long plagued by activities that continue to threaten the continent’s blue economy.
Biofuels, the World's Energy Past and Future
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 11 (IPS) - The number of victims of serious burns, some fatal, has increased in Brazil. Without money to buy cooking gas, the price of which rose 30 percent this year, many poor families resort to ethanol and people are injured in household accidents.
‘Dire’ economic and fiscal situation in Palestine requires integrated response
- UN News
A piecemeal approach to the current political, economic and security challenges in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) only risks perpetuating a continuing crisis, according to a new UN report published on Thursday.
World food import bill to reach record high in 2021
- UN News
The global food trade should hit an all-time record high in both volume and value terms, according to a new report released on Thursday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Magical Thinking on Fertilizer and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, Nov 09 (IPS) - As world leaders wrap up the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, new scientific research shows that there is still a great deal of magical thinking about the contribution of fertilizer to global warming.
Carbon Tax Over-Rated
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 09 (IPS) - Addressing global warming requires cutting carbon emissions by almost half by 2030! For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, emissions must fall by 45% below 2010 levels by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5°C, instead of the 2.7°C now expected.
Rebuilding a future for the displaced people of Burkina Faso: a Resident Coordinator Blog
- UN News
More than a million people in Burkina Faso have been displaced from their homes, victims of ongoing conflict and poverty. Nevertheless, following a recent visit to the central and northern regions of the country, Barbara Manzi, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Burkina Faso, says she met a resilient people keen to find their own solutions, to a better future.
Finance Nature-based Solutions to Quiet Nature’s Wrath – Experts
- Inter Press Service
Glasgow, Nov 05 (IPS) - Climate change experts and leaders from the Commonwealth member states rallied behind calls to accelerate climate finance for nature-based solutions to arrest the pace of climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
At COP26, EBRD Launches Plan to Mobilise Private Capital for Climate Finance
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Nov 05 (IPS) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced its intention to double the mobilisation of private sector climate financing by 2025.
World food prices reach highest level in more than a decade
- UN News
The UN barometer of world food prices has surged to a new peak, reaching its highest level since July 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced this Thursday.
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