Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 486
New Global Declaration “Insufficient” to Tackle Deforestation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 03 (IPS) - Heads of state, civil society groups and the leaders of some of the world's largest companies this week urged their peers to sign on to a landmark new global agreement aimed at halting deforestation by 2030, even as others are warning the accord is too lax.
Documents Detail Secret Talks Between Washington and Havana
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 02 (IPS) - In a new book cataloguing the recent history of clandestine exchanges between the U.S. and Cuba, the reliance on secret intermediaries belies the common perception that the two governments rarely communicated during the decades that followed the Cuban revolution in 1959.
Latin America on a Dangerous Precipice
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 02 (IPS) - "We could be the last Latin American and Caribbean generation living together with hunger."
Vaca Muerta, the New Frontier of Development in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
LOMA CAMPANA, Argentina, Oct 01 (IPS) - Production here has skyrocketed so fast that for now the installations of the YPF oil company at the Loma Campana deposit in southwest Argentina are a jumble of interconnected shipping containers.
OPINION: A Roadmap to Living – and Thriving - in Harmony with Nature
- Inter Press Service
PYEONGCHANG, Sep 30 (IPS) - In Nagoya, Japan, in 2010, the international community made a commitment to future generations by adopting the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
Boosting Incomes and Empowering Rural Women in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 30 (IPS) - Leonor Pedroso's sewing machine has dressed children in the Cuban town of Florida for 30 years. But it was only a few months ago that the seamstress was able to become formally self-employed.
From Subsistence to Profit, Swazi Farmers Get a Helping Hand
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Sep 30 (IPS) - Men in blue overalls are offloading vegetables from trucks while their female counterparts dress and pack the fresh produce before storing it in a cold room.
U.S. to Create National Plan on Responsible Business Practices
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 30 (IPS) - The United States will begin developing a national action plan on responsible business practices, following on several years of related advocacy from civil society.
Outgunned by Rich Polluters, Africa to Bring United Front to Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Sep 29 (IPS) - As climate change interest groups raise their voices across Africa to call for action at the COP20 climate meeting in December and the crucial COP21 in Paris in 2015, many worry that the continent may never have fair representation at the talks.
Tackling the Proliferation of Patents to Avoid Limitations to Competition
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 29 (IPS) - The steady increase in patent applications and grants that is taking place in developed and some developing countries (notably in China) is sometimes hailed as evidence of the strength of global innovation and of the role of the patent system in encouraging it.
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