The Potential Role of Insurance in Protecting the Most Vulnerable — Global Issues

The Potential Role of Insurance in Protecting the Most Vulnerable — Global Issues

Experts continue to debate where insurance belongs in climate financing. Credit: Peter Richards/IPS Opinion by Jamie Cummings (chapel hill, nc, usa) Friday, July 07, 2023 Inter Press Service The 2023 Climate Conference COP27 in Sharm put loss and damage clearly on the political agenda with the agreement to set up a…

The Dark Side of Wind and Solar Farms as Sustainable Energy in Brazil — Global Issues

The Dark Side of Wind and Solar Farms as Sustainable Energy in Brazil — Global Issues

A view of the Canoas Wind Farm, owned by Neoenergia, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. Several wind farms with hundreds of turbines have already been built in the mountains of the Seridó mountain range, which vertically cross the state of Paraíba, in the Northeast region of Brazil, and are…

Vaccination Is the Best Bet Against Drug-Resistant Superbugs Experts — Global Issues

Vaccination Is the Best Bet Against Drug-Resistant Superbugs Experts — Global Issues

Experts encourage parents to vaccinate their children against typhoid to ensure that the child has access to clean drinking water. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi) Thursday, July 06, 2023 Inter Press Service KARACHI, Jul 06 (IPS) – Childhood vaccination, complemented with clean drinking water and improved hygiene practices, are…

Over-Reliance on Attracting Investment is Undermining Change at World Bank — Global Issues

Over-Reliance on Attracting Investment is Undermining Change at World Bank — Global Issues

Opinion by Bhumika Muchhala, Maria Jose Romero (new york / brussels) Thursday, July 06, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK / BRUSSELS, Jul 06 (IPS) – One message that was repeated throughout last month’s summit on a so-called “New Global Financing Pact” was that developing countries urgently need mass financing to…

Quest for Safe Water in One of Indias Most Isolated Villages — Global Issues

Quest for Safe Water in One of Indias Most Isolated Villages — Global Issues

Simita Devi, whose daughter spent days in hospital recently suffering from typhoid caused by contaminated water, collects clean water brought to the surface by a solar pump. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor Shah (champad, india) Tuesday, July 04, 2023 Inter Press Service Champad, India, Jul 04 (IPS) – Simita…

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

While cooking on one side of her wooden tin-roofed house, Mercedes Marcahuachi describes her long day’s work to meet the needs of her household and of the soup kitchen where she serves 150 daily rations at the low price of 80 cents of a dollar, in one of the settlements…

A Disease of the Poor Begs For Rich Funding — Global Issues

A Disease of the Poor Begs For Rich Funding — Global Issues

A public awareness banner about tuberculosis on a fence in the Hope Fountain area, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by Busani Bafana (bulawayo) Monday, July 03, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Jul 03 (IPS) – The United Nations General Assembly is convening a high-level meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) to get a…

Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast — Global Issues

Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast — Global Issues

Eronildes da Silva proudly stands next to a bunch of bananas on his farm, whose large size is the result, he says, of the effective fertilizer of reusing waste water. In addition to farming, he drives a school bus and builds rainwater tanks in Afogados da Ingazeira, in Brazil’s semiarid…

Land Beneficiaries Lament Worsening Poverty in Resettled Areas — Global Issues

Land Beneficiaries Lament Worsening Poverty in Resettled Areas — Global Issues

People relocated to the Nakadanga Trust in Machinga District, Malawi, bemoan the lack of opportunities and schooling in the area they were relocated to live in. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS by Charles Mpaka (blantyre) Friday, June 30, 2023 Inter Press Service BLANTYRE, Jun 30 (IPS) – Located between two heavily-deforested mountains, Nakadanga…