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By Aimable Twahirwa      Nearly 30 species of indigenous species have been identified to guide tree planting in various locations, including in urban areas, to restore ecosystems and the advantages and services we receive from them in Rwanda. Credit: […]

By Isaiah Esipisu      The land at St Denis Libolina primary, a school for physically challenged has been transformed into food forests and gardens using agroecology and feed the children, teachers. They have now sent a challenge to the […]

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By IPS Correspondent      Brazilian climate activist Isabel Prestes da Fonseca. DUBAI, Dec 1 2023 (IPS) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said world leaders needed to urgently commit to three strategies: cut emissions, accelerate a just, equitable transition to renewables, […]

By Edgardo Ayala For farmers in the valleys below the 15 de Septiembre hydroelectric plant in central El Salvador, the rains bring floods. Now that the rains are more unpredictable, the loss of crops and disruption of fishing are even […]

By Joyce Chimbi      Teacher Maria Alberto in her classroom, 3500 classrooms were destroyed by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. Credit: Manan Kotak/ECW NAIROBI, Nov 28 2023 (IPS) – A catastrophic surge in the frequency, intensity, and severity of extreme […]

By Hisham Allam      UN Secretary-General António Guterres looks across the ice sheet at Frei Antarctica base. Credit: UN Photo/Mark CAIRO, Nov 27 2023 (IPS) – The recent U.S.-China summit on November 15 in San Francisco, against a backdrop […]

By Farhana Haque Rahman   TORONTO, Canada, Nov 27 2023 (IPS) – Another year and another UN climate change conference. As our ‘world leaders’ prepare for two air-conditioned weeks of wrangling at COP28 in Dubai later this month, forgive us […]

By Umar Manzoor Shah     Ropes with young seaweed plants are tethered to underwater stakes on the shallow seabed by one of Wagina Island’s seaweed farming families. These families cling to a precarious existence in the rapidly changing reef […]

  Nov 22 2023 –   Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is a medical doctor. Born in Sparta (Greece) in 1976, she holds both French and Greek nationalities and is a graduate of Sapienza University in Rome, as well as holding a PhD […]

By Inés M. Pousadela     Credit: Jenny Evans/Getty Images MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov 20 2023 (IPS) – Australia had the chance to take a step forward in redressing the exclusion of its Indigenous people – and chose not to. In […]

By Andrew Firmin      Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Bloomberg Philanthropies LONDON, Nov 17 2023 (IPS) – The need to act on the climate crisis has never been clearer. In 2023, heat records have been shattered around the world. […]

By Stella Paul   ‘If you ask what climate justice is, then the litmus test for climate justice is at the local level. So, climate justice needs to be judged by how many people are protected from climate-vulnerable conditions that […]

By Joyce Chimbi  Excluded by inheritance and ignored by big business, women farmers in Kenya are turning to innovative methods to become independent food producers and get the financial backing to ensure their success. Creating resilience is crucial to adapting […]

By Manipadma Jena For more than 33 years, a group of strong-willed women from the village of Tandahara, India have kept their homes and village safe and plan to continue despite the unrelenting impacts of increasingly severe weather.   Tandahara […]

By Joyce Chimbi     Kenya’s extensive coastline has been fronted as a hub for carbon trading due to its lush mangrove forests. But now experts caution that carbon markets are exploitative greenwashing systems. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS NAIROBI, Nov 10 […]

By Aimable Twahirwa      African Lawmakers seek to learn from best practices on how to hold their respective Governments accountable in the implementation of the Addis Ababa Declaration on Population and Development and the International Conference on Population and […]

By Inés M. Pousadela     Credit: Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct 24 2023 (IPS) – Brazil’s Supreme Court has delivered a long-awaited ruling upholding Brazilian Indigenous peoples’ claims to their traditional land. It did so by […]

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Meta, the multinational tech conglomerate behind Facebook, recently shared details of a deliberative democratic process focused on informing decisions around its so-called metaverse. Experts are calling the tech behemoth’s efforts a giant experiment in governance. Moreover, it’s an experiment heavily […]

By Andrew Firmin     Credit: Mohamed Afrah/AFP via Getty Images LONDON, Oct 12 2023 (IPS) – Ahead of the presidential election, Solih faced accusations of irregularities in his party’s primary vote, in which he defeated former president Mohamed Nasheed. […]

By Inés M. Pousadela      Crerdit: Silvana Flores/AFP via Getty Images MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct 10 2023 (IPS) – Mexico’s Supreme Court recently declared abortion bans unconstitutional, effectively decriminalising abortion throughout the vast federal country, so far characterised by a […]

By Inés M. Pousadela      Credit: Mohammed al-Shaikh/AFP via Getty Images MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sep 26 2023 (IPS) – Maryam al-Khawaja’s journey home ended before it had begun: British Airways staff stopped her boarding her flight at the request of […]

By Inés M. Pousadela     Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sep 19 2023 (IPS) – It’s a year since a photo of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini – bruised and in a coma she would never recover from after being […]

By Gordon Brown      Girls read from their textbooks at the Dasht-e-Barchi Education Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. Credit: UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani LONDON, Sep 15 2023 (IPS) – With hope and courage, we must rise to the challenges before us. We […]

By Joyce Chimbi      Girls in an informal school in Idlib, Syria. This ECW-supported school is providing much-needed education and psychosocial support to children affected by years of brutal conflict and recent earthquakes. © UNICEF/Fricker UNITED NATIONS & NAIROBI, […]

By Busani Bafana      Wild boar female (Susscrofa) walking on mud beside a river with her piglets. The wild boar is an invasive Alien Species in countries such as South Africa, Vanuatu, and Uruguay. Credit: Budimir Jevtic/Shutterstock BULAWAYO AND […]

By Inés M. Pousadela      Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug 29 2023 (IPS) – On 20 August, Guatemala witnessed a rare event: despite numerous attempts to stop it, the will of the majority prevailed. Democracy […]

By Andrew Firmin      Credit: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters via Gallo Images LONDON, Aug 18 2023 (IPS) – Civic space is deteriorating in Senegal ahead of next February’s presidential election. Recent protests have been met with lethal violence and internet and […]