News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 93
U.N.'s Post-2015 Agenda Needs a Triple Play
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 05 (IPS) - As the international community fleshes out a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be unveiled next year, civil society activists and U.N. officials agree their success will hinge on policies that address the nexus of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation.
WTO Urged Not to Treat Water Like Widgets
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 04 (IPS) - As government representatives gather Tuesday in Indonesia for what could be final negotiations towards a global trade agreement under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), environmentalists and social justice campaigners are urging them to specify that water resources cannot be treated as commodities.
The Carbon Warrior
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dic 01 (IPS) - Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity.
Storms, Flooding Can Unleash a Toxic Soup
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 30 (IPS) - It's a dirty, smelly business, but wastewater is gaining prominence across the Caribbean as countries from Jamaica in the west to Guyana in the south increasingly recognise its effects on the environment and the importance of improving its management.
Arab World Sinks Deeper into Water Crisis, Warns UNDP
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 29 (IPS) - The Arab world is widely perceived as blessed with an embarrassment of riches: an abundance of oil (Saudi Arabia), one of the world's highest per capita incomes (Qatar), and home to the world's tallest luxury building (United Arab Emirates).
Keeping the Philippines from Becoming Another Haiti
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Nearly two weeks after Typhoon Haiyan devastated parts of the central Philippines, experts and activists here are warning that post-disaster reconstruction needs to be more transparent than past such efforts, while also focusing on a long-term assistance strategy that goes beyond immediate emergency relief.
New Hope for Haiti's Decimated Forests
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 18 (IPS) - Small farmers could play an important part in making Haiti – where just two percent of trees are still standing – green again.
"World Toilet Day" No Joke for Billions Without Sanitation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 16 (IPS) - The United Nations has a longstanding tradition of commemorating political milestones - like the abolition of the slave trade - or sustaining day-long vigils on controversial issues such as a ban on nuclear tests.
U.N. Climate Meet: "It's About Survival"
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 13 (IPS) - For the small island developing states of the Caribbean, there is nothing more important than the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place here at the national stadium of Poland from Nov. 11-22.
OP-ED: A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - Eight decades ago, during the Great Depression, newly elected U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal consisting of a number of mutually supporting initiatives of which the most prominent were:
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