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Time to Rethink Health Financing: It's Not Just a Public Sector Concern
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jun 19 (IPS) - As G7 leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations wrapped up their summit in Kananaskis June 16, a critical issue was absent from the agenda: the future of global health financing.
Where the Thunder Dragon Breathes: Bhutan’s Bold Bet on Climate, Culture and Contentment
- Inter Press Service
THIMPU, Bhutan, Jun 18 (IPS) - “I can’t get this anywhere else,” says Tshering Lhamo, a 29-year-old shopkeeper in Thimphu, as she gestures toward the clean Himalayan air outside her thangka shop. She once studied in Kuala Lumpur but came back to Bhutan for the peace—and the purity. Her friend, Kezan Jatsho, who has never left the country, adds, “I cherish the peace here,” even as many of their peers migrate abroad.
Ahead of UN summit, countries finalise landmark ‘Compromiso de Sevilla’
- UN News
UN Member States have reached agreement on the outcome document for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, to be formally adopted at an upcoming summit in Sevilla, Spain – though without the participation of the United States, which withdrew from the negotiations and announced it will not attend the conference.
Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jun 17 (IPS) - Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with almost 300 million people now threatened by starvation.
Disaster Risk Reduction: The Insurance That Always Pays Off
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) - Floods, earthquakes, and droughts are striking the wallets of the world harder than any other time in history. According to the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, the cost of disasters is only growing, with annual expenditures exceeding $2.3 trillion; accounting for over 2% of global GDP, and if represented as a nation, it would have the seventh largest GDP.
Private Sector Key to Unlocking the Future of Development
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) - Geopolitical tensions – from deepening rivalries between major powers to regional conflicts – have placed acute pressure on the international development agenda. Development assistance from major funders has been on the decline. The world is becoming more unpredictable.
Make use of all urban waste, a utopia in Brazil?
- Inter Press Service
TIMBO / FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Jun 13 (IPS) - In 2014, Santa Catarina became the first and only state free of open-air garbage dumps in Brazil. Now, 14 of its municipalities are seeking to also free themselves from landfills and make use of nearly all urban solid waste.
Biggest-Ever Aid Cut by G7 Members a Death Sentence for Millions of People
- Inter Press Service
ALBERTA, Canada, Jun 13 (IPS) - Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment.
G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and reneging on their international commitments
From Villain to Vanguard: How the Shipping Industry Could Help Save Our Seas
- Inter Press Service
NICE, France, Jun 12 (IPS) - Once cast as a culprit of ocean degradation, the global shipping industry is quietly reshaping its image—with experts now betting on it as a key ally in saving our seas.
UNOC3: A Cry for Global Action to Save Small-Scale Fisheries
- Inter Press Service
NICE, France, Jun 12 (IPS) - Just before dawn, the worn wooden dhows begin gliding toward the shore at Magogoni fish market in Tanzania’s port city of Dar es Salaam. Their tattered sails flutter against the orange sky. Exhausted fishers step out onto the muddy sand, hauling frayed nets and plastic crates, their sun-creased faces tight with fatigue.
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