News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1072
Opinion: Indonesia’s Climate Commitment Ahead of Paris Talks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Sep 18 (IPS) - Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry took a step forward on the road to Paris when it published a draft of its new climate plan, or Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), for public consultation on Sep. 1, 2015. As the world's sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, Indonesia's climate commitment is an important piece of the global response to climate change.
OPINION: UN Committee adopts principles for sovereign debt restructuring
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 17 (IPS) - As a growing number of countries face the possibility of debt crises, the United Nations General Assembly has approved a set of nine basic principles for sovereign debt restructuring processes in an effort to provide for debt restructuring that is fair and economically sustainable.
UAE Government Stresses its Abidng Support for Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Sep 17 (IPS) - In response to suggestions that the Gulf states are doing littleor nothing to help Syrians fleeing their civil war, the Government of the United Arab Emirates has announced that it has take a broad range of supportive actions to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian population and to care for Syrian refugees in Syria and abroad, reports WAM.
Opinion: The Century of the Centenarians
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 17 (IPS) - With improving life styles, advances in medical science and technologies and declining mortality rates at older ages, the 21st century is witnessing the remarkable rise of centenarians, people who are aged 100 years or older.
Brazil’s Crisis: A Blessing and a Curse
- Inter Press Service
PORTO ALEGRE, Sep 17 (IPS) - The Lula development model that lifted 35 million people out of poverty and raised living standards for another 20 million people during the governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) has run its course.
Nuke Test Ban Treaty Still in Limbo, U.N. Complains
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 (IPS) - The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly back in 1996, has still not come into force for one primary reason: eight key countries have either refused to sign or have held back their ratifications.
Opinion: Protracted Stagnation Threatens International Solidarity, Development
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 16 (IPS) - A new post-2015 international development agenda is to be officially launched next week at a U.N. summit in New York. The ambitious list of 17 development goals includes a call for a revitalization of the global partnership for sustainable development.
Opinion: Another U.N. General Assembly Talk Fest Begins
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, Sep 15 (IPS) - UNGA 70 formally commenced on Sep. 15. In accordance with custom, it elected a new President, Denmark's Mogens Lykketoft, who has picked as the theme for his tenure as the President, "The UN at 70 - A New Commitment to Action".
The Recent Stages of Iran’s Nuclear Programme
- Inter Press Service
OXFORD, Sep 12 (IPS) - When negotiations between Iran and the European "Troika" broke down, the reformist government of Mohammad Khatami was discredited in the eyes of the Iranian electorate which had seen the futility of negotiating with the West.
Africa Sees U.N. Climate Conference as “Court Case” for the Continent
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Sep 10 (IPS) - As the clock ticks towards the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) in Paris in December, African experts, policy-makers and civil society groups plan to come to the negotiation table prepared for a legal approach to avoid mistakes made during formulation of the Kyoto Protocol.
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