Broken Relationship with Nature Exposed as Global Wildlife Population Plummets — Global Issues

Broken Relationship with Nature Exposed as Global Wildlife Population Plummets — Global Issues

Biodiversity is in trouble as the WWF report, 2022 Living Planet Index, indicates that the global wildlife population had decreased by 69 percent since 1970. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Inter Press Service Nairobi, Oct 25 (IPS) – Home to a variety of iconic and…

Climate Change Brings New Pest & Disease Pressures Previously Unimaginable — Global Issues

Climate Change Brings New Pest & Disease Pressures Previously Unimaginable — Global Issues

Children stand in a flood water in Borno State, Nigeria. Credit: UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin Opinion by Alexander Muller – Adam Prakash – Elena Lazutkaite (berlin) Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Inter Press Service BERLIN, Oct 25 (IPS) – In temperate zones lie most of the world’s richest countries, which have also been up…

Macroeconomic Policy Coordination More One-Sided, Ineffective — Global Issues

Macroeconomic Policy Coordination More One-Sided, Ineffective — Global Issues

Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 (IPS) – Widespread adverse reactions to the UK government’s recent ‘mini-budget’ forced new Prime Minister Liz Truss to resign. The episode highlighted problems of macroeconomic policy coordination…

Macroeconomic Policy Coordination More One-Sided, Ineffective — Global Issues

A Raging Storm for the Developing World that can be Avoided — Global Issues

Opinion by Isabel Ortiz, Matti Kohonen (london / new york) Monday, October 24, 2022 Inter Press Service LONDON / NEW YORK, Oct 24 (IPS) – Finance ministers of the G20 and the world met in Washington, October 10-16, to discuss how to navigate multiple crises, including rising cost-of-living, broken global supply…

Activists Call Out 11 Muslim Member States to Repeal Death Penalty for Blasphemy — Global Issues

Activists Call Out 11 Muslim Member States to Repeal Death Penalty for Blasphemy — Global Issues

Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Opinion by Soraya M. Deen, Christine M. Sequenzia (los angeles / washington dc) Friday, October 21, 2022 Inter Press Service LOS ANGELES / WASHINGTON DC, Oct 21 (IPS) – Eleven out of 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)…

Public Development Banks Cant Drag Their Feet When It Comes to Building a Sustainable Future — Global Issues

Public Development Banks Cant Drag Their Feet When It Comes to Building a Sustainable Future — Global Issues

Civil society organisations at the Finance in Common Summit. Credit: Noel Emmanuel Zako Opinion by Bibbi Abruzzini (abidjan, ivory coast) Friday, October 21, 2022 Inter Press Service ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Oct 21 (IPS) – A coalition of civil society organisations is demanding public development banks (PDBs) to take radical and innovative…

Accelerating Post-Pandemic SDG 6 Achievements on Water & Sanitation — Global Issues

Accelerating Post-Pandemic SDG 6 Achievements on Water & Sanitation — Global Issues

Credit: United Nations Opinion by Manzoor Qadir, Guillaume Baggio (hamilton, canada) Thursday, October 20, 2022 Inter Press Service HAMILTON, Canada, Oct 20 (IPS) – Global progress has been staggeringly inadequate against Sustainable Development Goal 6, “clean water and sanitation for all.” According to the latest SDGs progress assessment, 2 billion people…

Macroeconomic Policy Coordination More One-Sided, Ineffective — Global Issues

Time is Running Out for Decisions on Debt Relief as Countries Face Escalating Development Crisis — Global Issues

Opinion by Lars Jensen, George Gray Molina (united nations) Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 (IPS) – Developing low- and middle-income economies are taking hard hits from global economic developments outside their control. Monetary tightening in advanced economies coupled with increasing fears of a global recession…