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Redefine Business Success to Include Nature
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Dec 11 (IPS) - Sustaining nature is not just an environmental goal—it is an essential component of sustainable business—and requires that we redefine business success to include the wise stewardship of nature.
FAO Renews Its Commitment to Right to Food Guidelines
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched its newest report on the Right to Food Guidelines on December 10, which focuses on that focused on the urgency of food security as well as the measures that will be taken by the organization to eradicate hunger and malnutrition in the coming decade.
Africa’s Time – Delivering Transformation via Innovation
- Inter Press Service
GEBZE, Türkiye, Dec 11 (IPS) - Africa, the world’s youngest continent is brimming with creativity, talent and innovation. With more than 60% of its population under the age of 25, Africa’s youth are fueling entrepreneurship and job creation across the region.
In Zimbabwe, Women Are Leading the Battle Against Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
MAFAURE, Zimbabwe, Dec 11 (IPS) - When Susan Chinyengetere started to focus on farming in her home village in south-eastern Zimbabwe, she wondered if she could earn a living and raise her children.
Central American Countries Backtrack on Metal Mining Ban
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Dec 10 (IPS) - Metal mining has a renewed momentum in Central America, encouraged by populist rulers who, in order to soften environmental damage, claim they can develop it in harmony with nature, which is hard to believe
Protect the Rights and Future of Youth, Right Now, From Addiction and Harm
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dec 10 (IPS) - As the world commemorates UN Human Rights Day December 10, with the theme, “Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now,” it’s time to ask: Are we truly listening to what the youth envision for their present and future?
Syria crisis: Nothing must stop peaceful transition, says UN Special Envoy
- UN News
Barely 48 hours since opposition forces including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) swept into Damascus and forced out President Bashar al-Assad, the top UN negotiator tasked with helping the Syrian people to create a peaceful and democratic future insisted that nothing could be taken for granted.
South Africa’s G20 Presidency: A Call for Transformative Leadership in a Fractured World
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Dec 09 (IPS) - South Africa’s G20 Presidency begun in December, with only 12% of SDG targets on track and significant backsliding on more than 30%. As we write this today, there is an urgent need for a paradigm shift and practical solutions for a progressive, people-centred, and development-driven agenda in a fractured global landscape that needs collective healing.
Plastics, Power, and Politics: The High-Stakes Fight for a Global Treaty
- Inter Press Service
KERALA, India, Dec 09 (IPS) - As the fifth round of negotiations of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for a global plastics treaty concluded in Busan, South Korea (25 November-December 1 2024), the meeting underscored both the complexities and the promises of multilateralism. What we saw in Busan was indicative of other environmental treatymaking spaces, including ones on climate and biodiversity.
Another Tsunami Sweeps Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dec 06 (IPS) - On 26 December 2004 a powerful Asian tsunami swept over many of Sri Lanka’s coastal provinces, killing thousands of people and wildlife, devastating habitats and even washing away a trainload of passengers far from the rail tracks.
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