News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 32
Developing Countries and the Perfect Storm - Part I: What Should Developed Countries Do?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 01 (IPS) - Developing countries – in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America and in the Middle East - are facing a combination of crises that are unprecedented in recent times. Over the last three years they have had to face the COVID-19 crisis, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the climate change crisis, the debt crisis and, on top of all this, a global recession. The crises have overlapped, and each has added to the problems created by the previous ones.
Sanctions Now Weapons of Mass Starvation
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (IPS) - US and allied economic sanctions against Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine have not achieved their declared objectives. Instead, they are worsening economic stagnation and inflation worldwide. Worse, they are exacerbating hunger, especially in Africa.
What India Needs To Do To Achieve Net-Zero Status by 2070
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 20 (IPS) - The recent IPCC report that came out in the month of March 2022 says that, by the end of the century, the temperature rise is likely to be 2 to 3.7 degrees if global emissions, as they stand today, are not curtailed. In fact, according to the report, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions need to come down by 45 percent globally (compared with 2005) by the end of 2030.
Oil Business Burns Enough Gas to Power the Whole Sub-Sahara or Two Thirds of Europe
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, May 18 (IPS) - While the attention of mostly Western media and politicians is quasi exclusively hoarded up by the proxy war in Ukraine and its consequences on the energy sector, the world’s big oil business continues to burn Planet Earth with its underreported though highly polluting, wasteful practice of gas flaring.
Opacity Surrounds Fossil Fuels in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, May 09 (IPS) - In the northern Mexican state of Coahuila the current situation of coal, used mainly to generate electricity, is opaque.
The Sun Illuminates the Nights of Rural Families in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
TEOTEPEQUE, El Salvador, May 05 (IPS) - After working on the family farm, Carlos Salama comes home and plugs his cell phone into a socket via a solar-powered electrical system, a rarity in this rural village in southern El Salvador.
From Rags to Riches: Power and progress in Abu Dhabi
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Apr 20 (IPS) - I recently visited Abu Dhabi and my impressions became intermingled with worries about the war in Ukraine. I also happened to read Livy’s The Early History of Rome, written around the beginning of CE, coming across these lines:
Kenyan Community Project Saving Forests, Saving Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 20 (IPS) - Despite an abundance of fisheries reserves along Kwale County’s lush coastline located on the south coast of Kenya, fishers can no longer cast a net just past the coral reef and expect an abundant crab or prawn harvest.
Mexico Embraces Gas, Scorns Renewable Energy
- Inter Press Service
MÉRIDA, Mexico, Apr 18 (IPS) - At home, Isabel Bracamontes uses gas only for cooking. "We try to prepare food that doesn't need cooking, like salads," she says in the southeastern Mexican city of Mérida.
Oil Crisis Offers Opportunities to the South and to the Green Energy Transition
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Apr 13 (IPS) - The oil and gas supply crisis unleashed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine represents new business opportunities for the oil-producing countries of the developing South, both traditional and emerging, and also for accelerating the global transition to green forms of energy.
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