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Housing for Tomorrow: Sustainable Solutions from Habitat for Humanity
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 19 (IPS) - In the face of a growing climate crisis, the connection between housing and environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly urgent.
Money Talks: Why COP29 New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance Matters
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 19 (IPS) - The industrial revolution set the ball rolling towards global warming. Today, developing nations are on the frontlines of a climatic carnage and its snowballing effects. Developed nations bear a financial responsibility to provide climate finance to developing nations, as financing the transition to a low-carbon economy is an urgent, critical matter.
The Soil Mechanic: A Farmer’s Tale to Save Soil and Lives
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 19 (IPS) - In the heart of southern India lies an inspiring tale of determination, resilience, and an unyielding commitment to sustainable farming. This is the story of Anand Ethirajalu, who turned his childhood curiosity about food adulteration into a life mission to transform agriculture and protect human lives.
Survival at Stake: Caribbean Calls For Just, Fair Financing For Small Island States at COP
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 18 (IPS) - Communities living in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) pay the price of climate change in lives, livelihoods, and stunted sustainable development.
‘The International Community Must Stop Turning a Blind Eye to the Suffering of Sudanese Women’
- Inter Press Service
Nov 18 (IPS) - Content warning: this interview contains details some readers may find distressing.
CIVICUS discusses Sudan's civil war and its impact on women with Sulaima Elkhalifa, a Sudanese human rights defender and expert on gender-based violence.
Rebuilding Trust, Dialogue, Collaboration Key to COP29's Success, Says Barbados Minister
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 18 (IPS) - "This Finance COP has to deliver. I think this is a crucial moment for the COP process," said Shantal Munro-Knight, Barbados Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.
Breakthroughs, Setbacks in COP29's First Week of Ambitious Pursuit of Climate Consensus
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 17 (IPS) - It has been a high-profile packed agenda in Baku, Azerbaijan, marked by milestone events designed to complete the first enhanced transparency framework and the new collective quantified goal on finance, among other top priority matters.
Climate Finance Loans a Disaster for Climate-Burdened African Communities
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 16 (IPS) - African environmental activists at the ongoing climate summit (COP29) in Baku have called on climate financiers to stop suffocating poor countries with unbearable loans in the name of financing climate adaptation and mitigation on the continent.
Robust Negotiations Needed to Push Rich Countries to Honor Financial Commitments
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 16 (IPS) - The irony is that at forums like COP29, dubbed the finance COP, rich countries often behave as though they can sidestep their financial obligations, Yamide Dagnet, Senior Vice President, International at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), says.
Africa’s Demands: Continent’s COP29 Irreducible Minimums Amid Release of First Draft Text
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Nov 15 (IPS) - As expected, climate finance has taken center stage in Baku COP29 in a bid to renew the global focus on finance as a means to transform climate ambitions into tangible, sustainable action.
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