Solar Energy Useless Without Good Batteries in Brazils Amazon Jungle — Global Issues

Solar Energy Useless Without Good Batteries in Brazils Amazon Jungle — Global Issues

Solar panels with a capacity to generate 30 kilowatts no longer work in the Darora Community of the Macuxi people, an indigenous group from Roraima, a state in the far north of Brazil. The batteries only worked for a month before they were damaged because they could not withstand the…

India Can Use The G20 to Fight Corruption and Reduce Global Inequalities — Global Issues

India Can Use The G20 to Fight Corruption and Reduce Global Inequalities — Global Issues

Despite unprecedented challenges, 2022 also opened windows of opportunity to move the needle around critical anti-corruption issues, such as anti-money laundering, asset recovery, beneficial ownership, and renewable energy. Credit: Shutterstock. Opinion by Sanjeeta Pant (sanjeeta pant) Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Inter Press Service Sanjeeta Pant, Jan 25 (IPS) – The G20…

New Business Technology Transfer Provides Benefits for African Pharmaceutical Industry — Global Issues

New Business Technology Transfer Provides Benefits for African Pharmaceutical Industry — Global Issues

The African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation will be hosted by Rwanda. It is part of the African Development Bank’s commitment to spend at least USD 3 billion over the next ten years to support Africa’s pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing sector. Medical and pharmaceutical experts pose for a group photo with their…

Disconnected Citizens Are Kept Away from Opportunities — Global Issues

Disconnected Citizens Are Kept Away from Opportunities — Global Issues

An activist during COP27 in Egypt. Credit: Oliver Kornblihtt / Mídia NINJA Opinion by Bibbi Abruzzini (brussels) Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Inter Press Service BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (IPS) – In 2022, Saudi Arabia “quietly” sentenced Salma al-Shehab to 34 years in prison over her Twitter activity, marking the longest Saudi sentence…

United Nations Security Council, International Security & Human Security — Global Issues

United Nations Security Council, International Security & Human Security — Global Issues

A Security Council meeting in progress. Credit: United Nations Opinion by Purnaka de Silva (new york) Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jan 25 (IPS) – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the principal organ within the United Nations System that is mandated under the tenets of…

What Japan’s Massive Defense Investment Means for the World

What Japan’s Massive Defense Investment Means for the World

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: Japan’s new security strategy is bringing unprecedented change to its military policy and is introducing a new dynamic for global collective defense.  THE BIG QUESTIONS: What are the implementation concerns and how could this investment in defense impact escalating tensions over Taiwan, particularly in the Okinawa…

12 years of war, leaves 70 per cent of Syrians needing aid — Global Issues

12 years of war, leaves 70 per cent of Syrians needing aid — Global Issues

“As we move into 2023, the Syrian people remain trapped in a profound humanitarian, political, military, security, economic and human rights crisis of great complexity and almost unimaginable scale,” said Geir Pedersen, UN Special Envoy for Syria. Outlining recent developments, he reiterated his previous calls for calm on the ground, good faith engagement…

Two-thirds of Yemenis need humanitarian support and protection — Global Issues

Two-thirds of Yemenis need humanitarian support and protection — Global Issues

The UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA is calling for $4.3 billion to reach the 17.3 million most vulnerable people in need, whose lives have been turned upside down because of protracted war, displacement and economic collapse, compounded by recurrent natural disasters. Yemen’s civil war began in 2014 when Houthi rebels…