Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 2
From COP28 to Belém – Climate Security is Health Security
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 20 (IPS) - Around the world, the climate crisis is fast becoming the biggest public-health threat of the century. Extreme heat now kills more Europeans than any other natural disaster. Floods in Asia displace millions and contaminate water supplies. Mosquito-borne diseases once confined to the tropics are appearing in southern Europe and the United States.
Africa has a Debt Crisis: Momentum from G20 in South Africa can Help Find Solutions
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, November 20 (IPS) - The end of South Africa’s G20 presidency does not mean the end of its ability or responsibility to promote the issues it prioritised during 2025. It can still advocate for action on some of these issues through its further participation in the G20 and in other international and regional forums.
Civil Society Warns of New Land Grabs as World Bank Pushes for Tenure Reforms in Africa
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, November 19 (IPS) - As the COP30 negotiations intensify in Belém, Brazil, civil society organizations and research experts have called out major financial institutions for promoting foreign interests in controlling Africa’s land by formalizing land tenure and seeking to convert Africa’s land into industrial farms or carbon markets.
Why Climate Finance Is Vital for the Implementation of NDCs in Africa
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 18 (IPS) - Funding cuts from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe have left a funding gap in climate change programmes across Africa.
Faith Leaders Endorse Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty at COP30
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 18 (IPS) - Decades ago, a little girl was born in a place called Cleveland, Ohio, in the heart of the United States of America. Born to a woman from the deep South, the place of Martin Luther King, her mother left her ancestral lands for the economic opportunities in the north.
Why Food and Agriculture Should Be at the Centre of COP30 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, November 18 (IPS) - As the COP30 entered its second week in Brazil, the urgency to tackle climate change has never been greater, as is the appetite to feed a growing world population.
Pan-African Activist Advocates for Climate-Resilient Food, Education Systems at Belém Talks
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 18 (IPS) - “I am the founder of the ‘I Lead Climate Action Initiative,’ which is a Pan-African movement that carries out grassroots-based climate action to address the climate crisis in Africa. We advocate for the restoration of Lake Chad, the world’s largest environmental crisis through research and engagement,” says Adenike Titilope Oladosu.
Africa Wants Health to Be at the Center of Adaptation Finance
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 17 (IPS) - With the COP30 Presidency prioritizing health at the United Nations climate summit in Belém, African leaders are calling for finance to be channeled towards improving the health systems of developing countries.
‘This People’s March for Climate is For My Son’s Future’
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 15 (IPS) - In the scorching heat and humidity, Canru Pataxo marched with his one-year-old son firmly held in his arms.
‘Just Transition Must Make Climate Work for People Living its Consequences’
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 14 (IPS) - An open letter by more than 1,000 organizations from 106 countries, including trade unions, Indigenous leaders, feminist and youth movements, Afro-descendants, peasant groups, environmental advocates, disability networks and community organizations, to all States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is calling for a people-centered Just Transition.
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