2023 likely hottest year on record; further spike expected with El Niño — Global Issues

2023 likely hottest year on record; further spike expected with El Niño — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

That’s the message from UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which said on Wednesday that for the calendar year to date, the global mean temperature is the highest ever recorded, 1.43 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and sea ice in the Antarctic remains at record low levels. WMO expects the warming…

PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet — Global Issues

PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, November 08, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 08 (IPS) – Public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure and service provision are both costly and risky. Worse, PPPs typically fail to ensure universal, let alone fair access to public amenities. Public-private partnerships?…

Community Efforts Boost Wastewater Treatment in El Salvador

Community Efforts Boost Wastewater Treatment in El Salvador

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Community Efforts Boost Wastewater Treatment in El Salvador by Edgardo Ayala (chirilagua, el salvador) Tuesday, November 07, 2023 Inter Press Service CHIRILAGUA, El Salvador, Nov 07 (IPS) – Neither the central government nor most of El Salvador’s 262 municipalities have had the capacity to install enough wastewater treatment plants to prevent…

High Prevalence of Undetected Hypertension Found in Bangladesh — Global Issues

High Prevalence of Undetected Hypertension Found in Bangladesh — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

The salinity of the water in coastal Bangladesh contributes to high blood pressure. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPS by Rafiqul Islam (dhaka) Tuesday, November 07, 2023 Inter Press Service DHAKA, Nov 07 (IPS) – Since her childhood, Parveen Begum, 52, has been adding extra salt while eating her meals. However, she did not…

The Relentless Struggles of India’s Seawall Mammas — Global Issues

The Relentless Struggles of India’s Seawall Mammas — Global Issues

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Tandahara women tend to the new Casuarina plants. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS by Manipadma Jena (puri, india) Tuesday, November 07, 2023 Inter Press Service PURI, India, Nov 07 (IPS) – For more than 33 years, a group of strong-willed women from the village of Tandahara, India have kept their homes and village…

PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet — Global Issues

UN humanitarians plead for ‘access, access, access’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“Every day, you think it is the worst day and then the next day is worse,” UN health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said, quoting a colleague in Gaza, which remains under almost complete blockade. “Access, access, access is necessary.” 160 children killed daily The level of death and suffering is…

PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet — Global Issues

UNCTAD development finance call, Nepal quake update, religious freedom in Nicaragua — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

That’s the message from the UN’s trade and development body UNCTAD, which called on Tuesday for urgent reform of the international financial system to support the world’s 46 Least Developed Countries. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, these most vulnerable economies urgently require foreign investment to add…

PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet — Global Issues

Sudan war turning ‘homes into cemeteries’: UNHCR — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“The war that erupted without warning turned previously peaceful Sudanese homes into cemeteries,” said Dominique Hyde, Director of External Relations at UNHCR. She visited the country last week, and witnessed a surge in human suffering. “Away from the eyes of the world and the news headlines, the conflict in Sudan…