Global Issues
News headlines for “Food and Agriculture Issues”, page 46
Western Finance Ruining Economies of the Rest
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 19 (IPS) - Western financial policies have been squeezing economies worldwide. After being urged to borrow commercial finance heavily, developing countries now struggle with contractionary Western monetary policies.
Housing for Tomorrow: Sustainable Solutions from Habitat for Humanity
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 19 (IPS) - In the face of a growing climate crisis, the connection between housing and environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly urgent.
Survival at Stake: Caribbean Calls For Just, Fair Financing For Small Island States at COP
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 18 (IPS) - Communities living in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) pay the price of climate change in lives, livelihoods, and stunted sustainable development.
Rebuilding Trust, Dialogue, Collaboration Key to COP29's Success, Says Barbados Minister
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 18 (IPS) - "This Finance COP has to deliver. I think this is a crucial moment for the COP process," said Shantal Munro-Knight, Barbados Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.
Breakthroughs, Setbacks in COP29's First Week of Ambitious Pursuit of Climate Consensus
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 17 (IPS) - It has been a high-profile packed agenda in Baku, Azerbaijan, marked by milestone events designed to complete the first enhanced transparency framework and the new collective quantified goal on finance, among other top priority matters.
Climate Finance Loans a Disaster for Climate-Burdened African Communities
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 16 (IPS) - African environmental activists at the ongoing climate summit (COP29) in Baku have called on climate financiers to stop suffocating poor countries with unbearable loans in the name of financing climate adaptation and mitigation on the continent.
Robust Negotiations Needed to Push Rich Countries to Honor Financial Commitments
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 16 (IPS) - The irony is that at forums like COP29, dubbed the finance COP, rich countries often behave as though they can sidestep their financial obligations, Yamide Dagnet, Senior Vice President, International at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), says.
Africa’s Demands: Continent’s COP29 Irreducible Minimums Amid Release of First Draft Text
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 15 (IPS) - As expected, climate finance has taken center stage in Baku COP29 in a bid to renew the global focus on finance as a means to transform climate ambitions into tangible, sustainable action.
COP29 Negotiators Urged to Define Financial Path to Education for Climate-Affected Children
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 15 (IPS) - Directly destroying schools and learning materials, climate shocks are increasingly taking away the right to education. A staggering 400 million students globally experienced school closures from extreme weather since 2022. As COP29 negotiations deepen, defining a sustainable financial path to learning for vulnerable children, particularly those caught up in crises and conflict, is critical and urgent.
COP29: African Countries Must Wake Up from 'Distributed Carbon Emission Guilt' to People-Centered Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
Nov 14 (IPS) - Global warming is no longer just an issue for the environment but a crisis of life itself. Yet, African governments' climate action strategies, specifically those submitted under the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), remain disproportionately focused on emission reductions—an approach that fails to address the most pressing health needs of African communities. For many Africans, it's hard to explain why their leaders prioritize reducing emissions, which are rather low and insignificant when the immediate threat of climate change is not their carbon footprint but their vulnerability to its effects.
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