Global Issues
News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 2
From COP28 to Belém – Climate Security is Health Security
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 20 (IPS) - Around the world, the climate crisis is fast becoming the biggest public-health threat of the century. Extreme heat now kills more Europeans than any other natural disaster. Floods in Asia displace millions and contaminate water supplies. Mosquito-borne diseases once confined to the tropics are appearing in southern Europe and the United States.
Civil Society Warns of New Land Grabs as World Bank Pushes for Tenure Reforms in Africa
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, November 19 (IPS) - As the COP30 negotiations intensify in Belém, Brazil, civil society organizations and research experts have called out major financial institutions for promoting foreign interests in controlling Africa’s land by formalizing land tenure and seeking to convert Africa’s land into industrial farms or carbon markets.
Explainer: Inside COP30’s 11th Hour Negotiations for Legacy-Building Belém Climate Deal
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 19 (IPS) - At a Conference of the Parties, where science intersects with politics, reaching agreements is often a tricky business. What is inside the last-minute negotiations as the COP presidency tries to get the parties to agreement at the final plenary?
Why Climate Finance Is Vital for the Implementation of NDCs in Africa
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 18 (IPS) - Funding cuts from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe have left a funding gap in climate change programmes across Africa.
Faith Leaders Endorse Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty at COP30
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 18 (IPS) - Decades ago, a little girl was born in a place called Cleveland, Ohio, in the heart of the United States of America. Born to a woman from the deep South, the place of Martin Luther King, her mother left her ancestral lands for the economic opportunities in the north.
UNRWA Continues Operations in Gaza Amid Ongoing Insecurity and Shortages of Essential Services
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, November 18 (IPS) - After nearly two years of conflict between Hamas and Israel, displaced Palestinians in Gaza have begun returning home as humanitarian organizations work to restore essential, life-saving services. Despite recent progress, the United Nations (UN) and its partners continue to face major obstacles in reaching the most vulnerable populations due to ongoing insecurity and heightened restrictions. With winter fast approaching—and expected to further worsen living conditions—sustained aid operations remain critical.
Africa Wants Health to Be at the Center of Adaptation Finance
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 17 (IPS) - With the COP30 Presidency prioritizing health at the United Nations climate summit in Belém, African leaders are calling for finance to be channeled towards improving the health systems of developing countries.
‘This People’s March for Climate is For My Son’s Future’
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 15 (IPS) - In the scorching heat and humidity, Canru Pataxo marched with his one-year-old son firmly held in his arms.
‘Just Transition Must Make Climate Work for People Living its Consequences’
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 14 (IPS) - An open letter by more than 1,000 organizations from 106 countries, including trade unions, Indigenous leaders, feminist and youth movements, Afro-descendants, peasant groups, environmental advocates, disability networks and community organizations, to all States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is calling for a people-centered Just Transition.
Belém’s Hunger, Poverty Declaration Places World’s Most Vulnerable Populations at Centre of Global Climate Policy
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 14 (IPS) - A young woman at COP30 speaks about retracing her father’s footsteps. At only 16, her father and her grandfather were among the first families displaced by an unfolding climatic crisis of erratic weather and worsening climate conditions that goes on to date from their ancestral village in Sundarbans. Nearly 60 years later, she is on a mission to reclaim her ancestral lands.
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