News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 45
Q&A: “It’s a Crime” that 35 Million Latin Americans Still Suffer from Hunger
- Inter Press Service
The Ocean Conference: An Integrated Vision that must be Delivered
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (IPS) - In March 2015 at the Sendai World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, the then President of Kirbati, Anote Tong, made it very clear how vulnerable his country was to climate and disaster risk, when he informed the room (which was sadly less than half full) that his country had purchased land in Fiji.
At the UN Oceans Forum in June, Will the US Play a Bit Part?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (IPS) - In just a few weeks, the United Nations is convening a world gathering to discuss the health of the world's oceans and seas, with member states, government and nongovernmental organizations, corporations and members of the scientific community and academia signed up to take part.
Defence of Right to Water Drives Call for Land Reform in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, May 18 (IPS) - Water at high prices, sold as a market good, and small farmers almost a species in extinction, replaced by seasonal workers, are the visible effects of the crisis in rural Chile, 50 years after a land reform which postulated that "the land is for those who work it."
Caribbean Rolls Out Plans to Reduce Climate Change Hazards
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr 30 (IPS) - Climate change remains inextricably linked to the challenges of disaster risk reduction (DRR). And according to the head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Robert Glasser, the reduction of greenhouse gases is "the single most urgent global disaster risk treatment".
Caribbean Scientists Work to Limit Climate Impact on Marine Environment
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr 28 (IPS) - Caribbean scientists say fishermen are already seeing the effects of climate change, so for a dozen or so years they've been designing systems and strategies to reduce the impacts on the industry.
Marching for a Green and Just Future
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 (IPS) - People around the world will be banding together to fight one of the world's most pressing problems: climate change.
Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
New Generation Rallies to Climate Cause in Trinidad
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Apr 26 (IPS) - As two environmental activist groups in Trinidad and Tobago powered by young volunteers prepare to ramp up their climate change and sustainability activism, they are also contemplating their own sustainability and how they can become viable over the long-term.
No Trace of the Nicaraguan Interoceanic Canal
- Inter Press Service
PUNTA GORDA/BRITO, Nicaragua, Apr 25 (IPS) - Less than three years from the projected completion in Nicaragua of a canal running from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, there is no trace of progress on the mega-project.
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