Khoo Wei Yang Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Khoo Wei Yang (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, August 16, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 16 (IPS) – The World Bank plans to use public funds to subsidize private finance, ostensibly to mobilize much more capital to address the climate crisis….
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, August 09, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 09 (IPS) – The primary commodity price boom early this century has often been attributed to a commodity ‘super-cycle’, i.e., a price upsurge greater than what might be expected in ‘normal’ booms….
View of the Itaipú hydroelectric plant shared by Brazil and Paraguay on the Paraná River. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS Opinion by Philippe Benoit, Anne Sophie Corbeau (washington dc) Thursday, August 03, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Aug 03 (IPS) – The Colorado river basin has recently been wracked by an extended…
Marisol and Misael Menjívar pose next to the biodigester installed in March in the backyard of their home in El Corozal, a rural settlement located near Suchitoto in central El Salvador. With a biotoilet and stove, the couple produces biogas for cooking from feces, which saves them money. The biotoilet…
Over half the people in Africa still don’t have electricity access — a major contributor to persistent poverty. Credit: Energy 4 Impact Senegal Opinion by Philippe Benoit, David Sandalow (washington dc) Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Jul 19 (IPS) – Africa is caught in the crosshairs of…
While India decreased its population without access to clean cooking fuels by about 30 percent from 2010 to 2020, Africa has seen an increase of more than 50 percent over the same period, driven by a rising number of poor, tepid government policies to address this issue, and overarching poverty…
Sarah Razak Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Sarah Razak (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, July 12, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 12 (IPS) – As our planet continues to heat up at an alarming rate, carbon credits, markets and trading have been promoted as effective measures to combat global…
Opinion by Daud Khan (rome) Monday, July 10, 2023 Inter Press Service ROME, Jul 10 (IPS) – There seems to be no end in sight to the war in Ukraine. On the contrary it continues to escalate. The latest ratchet up has been the decision by the USA to supply the…
Some people in parts of Uganda have depended on small-scale charcoal production for livelihoods, but the trade has been taken over by illicit charcoal traders. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPS by Wambi Michael (kampala) Monday, July 10, 2023 Inter Press Service KAMPALA, Jul 10 (IPS) – At Kampala’s Nakawa market, Lovisa Nabisubi scoops…
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…
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