Category: Global South

Brazilian climate activist Isabel Prestes da Fonseca. By IPS CorrespondentDUBAI, Dec 1 2023 (IPS) United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said world leaders needed to urgently commit to three strategies: cut emissions, accelerate a just, equitable transition to renewables, and to climate justice. “The science is clear: The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning…

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Parents and children joined a protest in solidarity with Palestinian people in Karachi, Pakistan. Credit: Zofeen T. Ebrahim/IPS By Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Dec 1 2023 (IPS) To mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people condemning Israel’s war on Gaza, protests were held on Wednesday across the globe, from Tokyo to Manila, Tehran and…

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Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. By Antonio GuterresUNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 2023 (IPS) Resolution 2712 was approved in a context of widespread death and wholesale destruction unleashed by the conflict in Gaza and Israel. According to Israeli authorities, more than 1,200…

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Luis Aviles, standing on a segment of the rock embankment that protects riverbank communities from the overflow of the Lempa River in southern El Salvador, points to the part of the river that makes a turn in its course and hits the levee hard, undermining it. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala / IPSLuis Aviles, standing on a…

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Kazakhstan documentary premiere panelists. Credit: Naureen Hossain By Naureen HossainUNITED NATIONS, Nov 29 2023 (IPS) This week in New York, nuclear arms and the efforts to abolish these weapons will reign paramount. Since its adoption in 2017 and its subsequent implementation in 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has been signed…

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Northern night in Kirkenes, 400 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. This Norwegian town on the Russian border has become home to four exiled Russian journalists. Credit: Elizaveta Vereykina/IPS By Karlos ZurutuzaMADRID, Nov 29 2023 (IPS) At 400 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, Russian journalist Giorgi Chentemirov says he had already been out of…

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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Yin Shao LoongKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 29 2023 (IPS) Many in the wealthy West have misrepresented the causes of global warming, offering false solutions while claiming the high moral ground. This distracts attention from how they became wealthy while emitting greenhouse gases. Tragedy or farce? Growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…

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Nordan Otzer during a cancer awareness event in a village in Ladakh, India. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPS By Athar ParvaizLADAKH, INDIA, Nov 29 2023 (IPS) While working as a doctor in the initial months of his medical career in southern India, a telephone call from his home in the Ladakh Himalayas convinced Nordan Otzer to involve…

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The Red Sea’s reef is one of the longest continuous living reefs in the world. Credit: Unsplash/Francesco Ungaro By Julie PackardMONTEREY BAY, California, Nov 29 2023 (IPS) Just a few weeks ago, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres opened the Climate Ambition Summit with a warning that by failing to act on the climate crisis, he…

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