News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 315
Adaptation Funding a Key Issue for Caribbean at Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jun 15 (IPS) - With less than six months to go before the next full United Nations Conference of the Parties also known as COP 21 – widely regarded as a make-or-break moment for an agreement on global action on climate change – Caribbean nations are still hammering out the best approach to the talks.
World’s Nuke Arsenal Declines Haltingly While Modernisation Rises Rapidly
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 15 (IPS) - The world's stockpile of nuclear weapons, held by nine states, just got a little smaller.
Q&A: Better Students, Better Citizens, Better World: Education Is the Key to Peace
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 14 (IPS) - In a world where high levels of social and religious intolerance, conflicts, violent extremism and environmental degradation are threatening justice and peace, the United Nations is trying to find ways to maintain world order and promote sustainable development.
Rights Groups Call for Durable Solution for Europe’s Migrants
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jun 13 (IPS) - Human rights groups are calling for a sustainable solution to the migrant crisis in Europe, especially following the dismantling of refugee camps in Paris and Calais, France, over the past two weeks.
U.N. Urged to Put Global Citizenship at Centre of Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 12 (IPS) - When Denmark hosted the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD) in March 1995, one of the conclusions of that international gathering in Copenhagen was to create a new social contract with "people at the centre of development."
Peru a Shining Example for South America’s Climate Action Plans
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Jun 12 (IPS) - This week, Peru became the first South American nation to publicly announce its Climate Action Plan, or INDC. In doing so, it may have set the scene for a new wave of highly transparent and ambitious INDC submissions from the continent.
Opinion: Journey Towards an African Taxation Renaissance
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jun 12 (IPS) - Africa is known as the ‘paradox of plenty'. How can a continent so rich in natural resources be so poor?
Small Victories at Bonn Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 (IPS) - As climate talks wind down in Bonn, Germany, observers of the negotiations say that despite some progress on a draft text, key issues remain unresolved and will carry over at least until the next round in August.
Opinion: Cli-Fi Film from Philippines Packs a Punch
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Jun 10 (IPS) - I live on a crowded, subtropical island nation in the Western Pacific, on the opposite side of the "Pacific Pond" from North America. And just south of Taiwan is the many-splendored island nation of the Philippines. We are neighbours. You can fly there in one hour, it's that close.
A Regional Foodbasket Plans for the Worst
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Jun 10 (IPS) - Despite its highly variable climate, Guyana is the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country that enjoys food security. But rapid climate change could pose a challenge not only for Guyana, but for its Caribbean neigbours who depend on the South American country for much of their produce.
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