Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 405
The Global South Will Make Its Contribution to Fighting Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Oct 05 (IPS) - Seen for years as passive actors in the fight against global warming, more than 100 countries of the Global South have submitted their national contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonising their economies.
Brazil’s Expanded Climate Targets Frustrate Environmentalists
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 02 (IPS) - Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions reduction programme, hailed as bold, has nevertheless left environmentalists frustrated at its lack of ambition in key aspects.
The Spectre of Jobless Growth in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Oct 02 (IPS) - India faces a serious challenge of dealing with joblessness despite statistically being the world's fastest growing economy. The spread, depth and intensity of the problem, especially among the educated youth, is not reflected the latest unemployment number of 4.9 per cent in 2013-14. This estimate captures the chronically unemployed – those who sought or were available for work for the major part of the year – but it rarely figures in public discourse as the rate is relatively low and stable over time. Another reason is that the economy continues to generate employment opportunities even if they are largely casual or temporary in the informal sector.
Honduran Fishing Village Says Adios to Candles and Dirty Energy
- Inter Press Service
PLAN GRANDE, Honduras, Oct 01 (IPS) - A small fishing village on the Caribbean coast of Honduras has become an example to be followed in renewable energies, after replacing candles and dirty costly energy based on fossil fuels with hydropower from a mini-dam, while reforesting the river basin.
Opinion: Renewed Optimism or Higgledy-Piggledy Vision?
- Inter Press Service
Philadelphia and Boston, Sep 30 (IPS) - The 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the whopping 169 targets were adopted in the largest ever United Nations Summit, attended by Prime Ministers, Presidents and the Pope, among other luminaries, in New York. These goals encompass world peace, the environment, gender equality, elimination of poverty and hunger and much, much more.
Opinion: The Party's Over for U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) - The Pope has left the U.N. and the traffic in Manhattan is back to normal. The hoard of government delegations, NGOs and civil society representatives are packing up and the press is moving on. The party's over for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Africa Must Depend Less on Development Aid, Says New Study
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 29 (IPS) - As the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their targeted date by the end of December, one of the lingering questions has long remained unanswered – at least, until now.
Electoral Revolution in Brazil Aimed at Neutralising Corporate Influence
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 29 (IPS) - From now on, elections in Brazil will be more democratic, without corporate interference, which had become decisive and corruptive. A Sep. 17 Supreme Court ruling declared unconstitutional articles of the elections act that allow corporate donations to election campaigns.
Opinion: We Can Overcome Poverty and Hunger by 2030
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 29 (IPS) - Over three quarters of the extreme poor in the world live in the countryside. Reducing rural poverty will therefore require significantly higher rural incomes. Since most rural incomes are related to agriculture, raising agricultural productivity can help raise rural incomes all round.
Mexican Government Depends More and More on Private Business Partners
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 28 (IPS) - The Mexican government has increasingly turned to public–private partnerships (PPPs) to build infrastructure in the energy industry and other areas. But critics say this system operates under a cloak of opacity and is plagued by the discretional use of funds.
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