Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1172
Q&A: U.N. Looks to High Seas to Alleviate Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is convinced there is sufficient global capacity to produce enough food to adequately feed the world's seven billion people.
OP-ED: Are We at the Tipping Point for Ending Hunger and Malnutrition?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 (IPS) - Author Malcolm Gladwell draws on the science of epidemiology in his book "The Tipping Point" to explain how ideas spread through a population, in the same way as an infectious disease can proceed from a few cases to a full-blown pandemic.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit Record High in 2012
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 11 (IPS) - Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide rose by 1.4 percent last year, setting a new record, according to data released Monday.
U.S., Malaysia Lead Worldwide "Land Grabs"
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 10 (IPS) - Africa is the main target for "land grabs" by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released Monday.
Q&A: “The U.N. Is Too Slow to Respond to Crisis”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 (IPS) - As the situation in Myanmar deteriorates, thousands of Rohingyas have fled the country in search of a safe haven.
Q&A: Women Hardest Hit by Growing New Austerity Measures
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 (IPS) - The widespread financial crisis in Europe, and its negative fallout in the developing world, has triggered severe austerity measures worldwide.
Behind the Climate Finance Headlines
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, Jun 10 (IPS) - Developed countries report that they delivered more than 33 billion dollars in Fast Start Finance (known as FSF), beyond the pledges they made at COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009. Recent analysis suggests that the funding delivered may have exceeded 38 billion dollars. But that is not the whole story.
Are Developing Countries Waving or Drowning?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jun 10 (IPS) - More than five years since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the world economy has shown few signs of stabilising and moving towards strong and sustained growth.
Egypt's Presidency, Judiciary Brace for Showdown Over Draft Law
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jun 10 (IPS) - The post-revolution struggle between Egypt's judiciary and President Mohammed Morsi, the country's first Islamist head of state, finally seems to be coming to a head over controversial draft legislation regulating judicial authority.
BOOKS: The Brothel Next Door
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 08 (IPS) - The underground sex trade is closer to our everyday world than we may think.
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