Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 560
Obama Gets More Time for Iran Nuclear Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (IPS) - The administration of President Barack Obama appears to have succeeded in preventing Congress from enacting new sanctions against Iran before the next round of nuclear-related talks between the U.S. and other great powers and Tehran scheduled for Geneva Nov. 20.
Bachelet Poised for Easy Win in Fed-Up Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Nov 15 (IPS) - Voters fed up with the extremely unequal distribution of wealth and power in Chile are expected once again to elect a centre-left government Sunday.
Japan Bails Out on CO2 Emissions Target
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Japan announced Friday that it will renege on its carbon emissions pledge, likely ending any hope global warming can be kept to 2.0 degrees C.
Indonesia’s Forest Communities Victims of 'Legal Land Grabs'
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Nov 15 (IPS) - Indonesia's rainforests are facing "legal land grabs", allege NGOs. Its ancient communities are finding that their ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation, as demand for the product grows in Europe, India and China.
Fishing Communities Will Face Warmer, Acid Oceans
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Eating fish has been an integral part of the Caribbean's cultural traditions for centuries. Fish is also a major source of food and essential nutrients, especially in rural areas where there are scores of small coastal communities.
Brazil Headed Towards an Energy Revolution
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Energy consumption and production are undergoing fundamental shifts but the world is still on course to a 3.6 degree C hotter climate according a report released during the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw.
Concerns Over Role of Cooperates at Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - As deliberations continue in earnest at the 19th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Warsaw, negotiators from the Global South welcome a focus on financing adaptation – but reject a new emphasis on a role for the private sector.
Developing World Pushes for Rescue of U.N. Carbon Credit Fund
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Negotiators from Least Developed Countries are calling for the United Nations climate body to urgently establish a rescue fund to save Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism from collapse.
In Anti-Poaching Warning, U.S. Destroys Ivory Stockpiles
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (IPS) - The United States has become the first developed country to destroy its stock of seized ivory, a move being widely lauded by conservation groups pushing for an outright ban on domestic ivory sales.
Las Pavas Extracts a Miracle from God
- Inter Press Service
LAS PAVAS/BOGOTÁ, Nov 14 (IPS) - The rural community of Las Pavas in northern Colombia received this year's National Peace Prize Wednesday in recognition of its peaceful struggle for land that is claimed by an oil palm company, in a case that became an international symbol of the conflict over land in this country.
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