By Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed ChowdhurySINGAPORE, Aug 10 2020 (IPS-Partners) President Jimmy Carter of the United States had once paid Iran glowing tributes, which was received quite normally in American policy circles and raised no eyebrows: He had said: “(Iran was) an island of stability in one of the most troubled areas of the world”. In
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10 August 2020
US-IRAN-CHINA: Travails of a Trilateral Triangle, and the Emergence of an Eastern Front
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10 August 2020
Has Cost Benefit Analysis Improved Decisions in Colombia? Evidence from the Environmental Licensing Process
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Publication date: December 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 178 Author(s): Andrés Vargas, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Erazo, David Diaz
9 August 2020
UK weather: a month’s rain could fall in two hours as heatwave breaks
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Fears of flash flooding in parts of country, while experts warn extreme heat could become the norm Over a month’s worth of rain could fall within two hours on parts of Britain this week, causing flash flooding, while an ongoing heatwave is set to break records. Police and the coastguard issued warnings over the weekend
9 August 2020
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2020 – Statement of the Indigenous Partnership (TIP)/NESFAS
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Phrang Roy, Chairperson NESFAS, India Coordinator, The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty (TIP). By Phrang RoyROME, Aug 9 2020 (IPS-Partners) As we commemorate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, let us not forget that supporting Indigenous Peoples is not only a social good; it is also a sound development policy. Defending
9 August 2020
Carbon and market effects of U.S. forest taxation policy
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Publication date: December 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 178 Author(s): Adam J. Daigneault, Brent L. Sohngen, Roger Sedjo
9 August 2020
New FOI ruling orders disclosure of CSIRO internal documents on its response to Murray-Darling criticisms
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The information commissioner says release of material previously redacted by the scientific agency is a matter of public interest An important freedom of information ruling from the information commissioner involving the CSIRO has set a new bar on when the public service can withhold documents detailing internal deliberations if they concern matters of public importance.
7 August 2020
As Latin America Looks to a COVID Recovery, It Will Need to Tackle its Growing Middle-Class Angst
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The confinement policies put in place to address COVID have discouraged mass political gatherings, but the factors that drove the social unrest of 2019 remain and, in many ways, have been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. Credit: Carlos Vera. By Ricardo Raineri and Philippe BenoitAug 7 2020 (IPS) While COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across
6 August 2020
Biodiversity Loss Could be Making Us Sick – Here’s Why
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Children need diverse microbiomes in their environment to develop healthy immune systems. Credit: Josh Calabrese on Unsplash. By External SourceAug 5 2020 (IPS) By 2050, 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in towns and cities. Urban living brings many benefits, but city dwellers worldwide are seeing a rapid increase in noncommunicable health
5 August 2020
Kenneth Hayne says Covid shows Australian politics can be more than a ‘dialogue of the deaf’
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The former high court judge urges politicians to defend their institution rather than prioritise partisan self-interest Debates about climate change and the Indigenous voice to parliament have been hijacked by sloganeering and the “peddling of false and misleading ideas”, according to the former high court justice Kenneth Hayne, who has urged Australian politicians to defend
5 August 2020
The UN General Assembly: A 75-Year Journey Towards the Future We Want
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H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, visits a school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 10 February 2020. Credit: Geremew Tigabu/UN OPGA By Tijjani Muhammad-BandeNEW YORK, Aug 4 2020 (IPS) The United Nations came into existence at a time of great despair, when the penholders of its founding