At least 54 percent of sexually active adolescent women in Kenya who would like to postpone pregnancy have an unmet need for modern contraception. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPS By Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, May 25 2020 (IPS) It was only when 17-year-old Eva Muigai was in her final trimester that her family discovered she was pregnant. Muigai, a
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25 May 2020
Kenya’s Adolescent Women Left Behind As More Married Women Access Contraception
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25 May 2020
Spotlight on Spatial Spillovers: An Econometric Analysis of Wastewater Treatment in Mexican Municipalities
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Publication date: September 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 175 Author(s): Lutz Philip Hecker, Frank Wätzold, Gunther Markwardt
25 May 2020
How is the COVID-19 impacting climate action? A conversation with Sylvie Goyet, director of the Climate Change division of SPC
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By External SourceMay 24 2020 (IPS-Partners) In the context of COVID-19 crisis, what are the risks for climate action? Climate change still continues and climate impacts are still very visible in the Pacific. A few weeks ago, we had major forest fires in Australia and in other countries. Now we’re battling tropical cyclone Harold which
25 May 2020
Australia’s ‘failing’ environmental laws will fuel further public health crises, Nobel laureate warns
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Bushfires and Covid-19 highlight connection between human health and natural world, states letter by almost 200 doctors and scientists Leading health professionals, including a Nobel laureate and a former Australian of the Year, say the government must put human health “front and centre” in a new generation of environment laws in the aftermath of the
24 May 2020
Circular futures: What Will They Look Like?
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Publication date: September 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 175 Author(s): Thomas Bauwens, Marko Hekkert, Julian Kirchherr
24 May 2020
The climate crisis looms as the Coalition fiddles with fossil fuels | Greg Jericho
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The government is like a smoker switching to low-tar cigarettes. Its energy policy is just a sop We may be dealing with a health crisis, but the climate change crisis has not gone away, nor become any less urgent. In fact, the opposite. A few conservative commentators have suggested Covid-19 shows what a real crisis
23 May 2020
Crisis Hits Oil Industry and Energy Transition Alike
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Mexico’s state-run oil giant Pemex faces a difficult outlook due to the fall in international oil prices and the crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, which threatens its production and finances, in a situation analysed during the 29th La Jolla Energy Conference, organised online by the Institute of the Americas. CREDIT: Emilio Godoy/IPS By Emilio
20 May 2020
COVID-19 – China Tells World Health Assembly They Did their Best
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People wearing face masks at a Bus stop in Macau, China near a public hospital. This week’s 73rd World Health Assembly had member states adopt a resolution to review the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Macau Photo Agency on Unsplash By Samira SadequeUNITED NATIONS, May 20 2020 (IPS) This week’s 73rd World
20 May 2020
Tropical cyclones have become more destructive over past 40 years, data shows
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US study identifies statistically significant trend in line with climate scientists’ predictions Tropical cyclones have become more intense around the globe in the past four decades, with more destructive storms forming more often, according to a study that further confirms the theory that warming oceans would drive more dangerous cyclones. Analysis of satellite records from
19 May 2020
Striking at the core of the COVID-19 employment crisis
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By Aurelia BruceMay 19 2020 (IPS-Partners) What is happening now In the early months of 2020, much of the globe was put on pause as governments fought to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. For many, work came to a grinding halt as factories and shops were forced to close their doors, transforming a global health