By Anis ChowdhurySYDNEY, Mar 18 2020 (IPS) The coronavirus pandemic seems to have finally forced governments around the world to ditch their obsession (at least for the moment) with delivering budget surplus. As stock markets tumble, stimulus measures, worth billions of dollars, are announced to boost investor confidence and consumer spending to keep economies running.
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18 March 2020
Cop26: Boris Johnson urged to resist calls to postpone climate talks
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Expert says early cancellation due to coronavirus would damage hopes of progress Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Nicholas Stern, one of the most prominent global experts on the climate crisis, has urged Boris Johnson to resist calls to postpone vital UN climate talks this year, despite the coronavirus outbreak. Ministers and
18 March 2020
Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework
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Publication date: July 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 173 Author(s): Jeroen Vos, Rutgerd Boelens, Jean-Philippe Venot, Marcel Kuper
18 March 2020
Global Witness accuses UK of ‘rank hypocrisy’ on fossil fuel projects
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Campaign group says UK’s export credit agency broke OECD’s rules with £2bn of fossil fuel financing The UK government’s export credit agency has fallen foul of OECD guidelines by offering multibillion-pound support to fossil fuel projects overseas despite global efforts to tackle the climate crisis, according to a campaign group. Global Witness has accused the
17 March 2020
Trinidad and Tobago Struggles to Meet its Biodiversity Targets
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By Jewel FraserPORT-OF-SPAIN, Mar 17 2020 (IPS) Trinidad and Tobago, like many other signatories to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, had made commitments in 2010, to achieve several biological diversity targets during the decade 2011 to 2020, commonly referred to as the Aichi targets. However, achieving most of those targets continues to be
17 March 2020
Gender “Could be Coronavirus Key”
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By External SourceMar 17 2020 (IPS) Analysing how coronavirus impacts genders differently could be key in fighting the disease, say public health experts. Women are on the coronavirus frontlines as healthcare workers, primary caregivers and migrant workers, but policy responses often fail to consider how gender and epidemics interact. The Ebola and Zika outbreaks underline
17 March 2020
Life is Sweet
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The author is journalist and communications specialist; veteran of Al Jazeera English, BBC and CNN International. By Veronica PedrosaMar 16 2020 (IPS-Partners) First of all, I wish everyone reading this good health. Second of all, I wish for everyone to get informed – I mean properly informed from the many reliable sources out there. These
16 March 2020
Drivers of decoupling and recoupling of crop and livestock systems at farm and territorial scales
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Crop and livestock production have become spatially decoupled in existing commercial agricultural regimes throughout the world. These segregated high input production systems contribute to some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges, including climate change, nutrient imbalances, water pollution, biodiversity decline, and increasingly precarious rural livelihoods. There is substantial evidence that by closing the loop
16 March 2020
I Am Generation Equality: Storytelling for Equality
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Two HerStory Fellows conducting a reading session at Terre Des Hommes Kalshi Adolescent Club. Credit: HerStory Foundation By Zareen Mahmud HoseinNEW YORK, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) When you flip through grade one Bangla school textbooks there is very little written about the progress women have made in Bangladesh since the Beijing Conference for Women in
16 March 2020
ONS inflation basket: reusable bottles and gin in a tin added, fruit pies out
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Annual changes to list of goods and services reflect consumers’ desire to cut carbon output Reusable bottles and mugs have been included in the UK’s inflation basket for the first time amid evidence of a rise in sales driven by the desire of consumers to reduce their carbon footprint. In its annual update to the