Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 210
Scaling up Development Finance
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 05 (IPS) - The Business and Sustainable Development Commission has estimated that achievement of Agenda 2030 for the Sustainable Development Goals will require US$2-3 trillion of additional investments annually compared to current world income of around US$115 trillion. This is a conservative estimate; annual investments of up to US$2 trillion yearly will be needed to have a chance of keeping temperature rise below 1.5°C.
Ethiopia’s Internally Displaced Overlooked Amid Refugee Crises
- Inter Press Service
DOLO ODO, Ethiopia, Sep 05 (IPS) - Grasping its limp leg, a woman drags the carcass of one of her few remaining black-headed sheep away from her family's domed shelter fashioned out of sticks and fabric that stands alone amid the desiccated scrubland a few kilometers from the town of Dolo Odo in the southeast of Ethiopia near the border with Somalia.
Europe, New Border of Africa’s ‘Great Desert’ – The Sahara
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 05 (IPS) - With the highest temperatures on record and unprecedented heat waves hitting Europe this year, Africa's ‘Great Desert', the Sahara, is set continue its relentless march on the Southern European countries until it occupies more than 30 per cent of Spain just three decades from now.
Small Entrepreneurs Emerge as Backbone of Bangladesh’s Rural Economy
- Inter Press Service
Banaripara (Barisal), Sep 04 (IPS) - She was born in the early 1950's to an ultra-poor family in Kundihar, a remote village of Banaripara of Barisal division in Bangladesh. She was a beautiful baby and her father named her ‘Shahndah Rani' which means ‘Queen of Evenings'. But in reality her life was far from that of a queen.
Towards a Resource Efficient and Pollution Free Asia-Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 04 (IPS) - Senior government officials from across Asia and the Pacific will meet in Bangkok this week for the first-ever Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment. The high-level meeting is co-convened by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) and UN Environment and is a unique opportunity for the region's environment leaders to discuss how they can work together towards a resource efficient and pollution-free Asia-Pacific.
Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 04 (IPS) - Africa contributes only 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while six of the 10 most affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the urgent need to scale up climate-smart agriculture, improve forestry and transform the productivity of water use.
To Be a Nigerian Migrant in Italy
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Aug 31 (IPS) - Bako* (24), a Nigerian migrant, stairs at new comers at an old, local Roman bar. Extremely polite, he asks for money. If you offer to him to buy some food instead, he immediately accepts.
Once Decimated by AIDS, Zimbabwe’s Khoisan Tribe Embraces Treatment
- Inter Press Service
TSHOLOTSHO, Zimbabwe, Aug 31 (IPS) - Sixty-seven-year-old Hloniphani Sidingo gives a broad smile while popping out through the gate of a clinic in her village, as she heads home clutching containers of anti-retroviral pills.
Protecting Africa’s Drylands Key to the Continent’s Future
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 29 (IPS) - Africa's population continues to grow, putting intense pressure on available land for agricultural purposes and life-supporting ecosystem services even as the scenario is compounded by the adverse impacts of climate change.
Disaster Strikes Freetown - over 400 Dead and 600 Still Missing
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Aug 23 (IPS) - In the early hours of Monday morning, August 14, torrential rains hit Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital city. Several areas of the city were flooded, as houses were either partially submerged under water or destroyed.
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