News headlines in 2020, page 30

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 (IPS) - The question has never been whether women can lead as capably as men. Women have always led, and women will always lead, especially when the times are hard, and their communities are in need. The question that we need to ask is, why is women's leadership invisible? Why is their potential and their power stifled?

WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - President Xi Jinping announced on Tuesday China's aim to become carbon neutral before 2060. Achieving this goal will require the support and engagement of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), as they currently generate more than half of the country's energy sector emissions. SOEs are major drivers of greenhouse gas emissions globally, particularly in emerging economies. 

HAMILTON, Canada, Sep 24 (IPS) - As we reflect on this week and celebrate the United Nations' rise in the war-ravaged world some 75 years ago, humanity is again being asked to lay the foundation for a new world.

NEW YORK, Sep 23 (IPS) - Abby Maxman, President & CEO of Oxfam America, in a response to President Donald Trump's UN General Debate remarks.

President Trump took the UN stage to settle scores and shift blame as he sought to spin an alternate version of his administration's response to the pandemic.

AMURU, Uganda/NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 23 (IPS) - In Amuru district, 47 kilometres from Gulu town in northwestern Uganda, the Omer Farming Company has proven that it is possible to farm on thousands of acres of land using methods that conserve the environment and its biodiversity.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 23 (IPS) - The UN will be hosting the first-ever Biodiversity Summit – remotely – on September 30.

A spate of reports on biodiversity – the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystemsthe Living Planet Reportthe Global Forest Resources Assessment Report and the Global Biodiversity Outlook- paint a stark picture for the world's biodiversity.

STOCKHOLM, CAMBRIDGE (US), Sep 23 (IPS) - As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads. Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate industrial farming models promoted by developed countries? Or will they move boldly into the uncertain future, embracing ecological agriculture?

VERNON, Canada, Sep 22 (IPS) - Can the "energy transition" in Latin America help address the risks caused by greenhouse gases (GHG) on the climate, and the economic depression caused by the pandemic?

PUNE, India, Sep 22 (IPS) - One of the worst fallouts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the closure of industries in India, which caused thousands of migrant labourers to return home to villages in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal. In a region where the poorest have always been subjected to bonded labour, child labour and slave trafficking, it has meant revisiting the past.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22 (IPS) - Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General, in a statement marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations

The ideals of the United Nations – peace, justice, equality and dignity — are beacons to a better world.

But the Organization we celebrate today emerged only after immense suffering. It took two world wars, millions of deaths and the horrors of the Holocaust for world leaders to commit to international cooperation and the rule of law.