Ghanas Climate Change Battle — Global Issues

Community members during the clean-up exercise co-organised by CMHIP and Shiabu residents. Picture Credit: CDKN by Cecilia Russell (baku) Thursday, November 21, 2024 Inter Press Service BAKU, Nov 21 (IPS) – As climate change wreaks havoc across the globe, its effects are most acutely felt by those living in vulnerable coastal …

COP16 Delivers on Indigenous Peoples, Digital Sequencing, But Fails on Finance — Global Issues

An image of an indigenous woman at the Plenary in session at COP16 which took a historic decision on the indigenous peoples and local communities. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS by Stella Paul (cali, columbia) Sunday, November 03, 2024 Inter Press Service CALI, Columbia, Nov 03 (IPS) – The curtains fell on the …

Cuba’s Coastal Dwellers Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change — Global Issues

A mangrove forest in Manzanillo Bay, eastern Cuba. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños / IPS by Dariel Pradas (manzanillo, cuba) Wednesday, October 02, 2024 Inter Press Service MANZANILLO, Cuba, Oct 02 (IPS) – When the weather is bad, the residents of the Litoral neighborhood in Manzanillo, Cuba, are forced to evacuate their …

Guardians of Mother Earth Saving Mau, Revitalizing Native Lands — Global Issues

Paran Women Group’s executive director, Naiyan Kiplagat, is working in the forest. The group are passionate guardians of the environment and promoters of gender equality. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (great rift valley, kenya) Friday, September 06, 2024 Inter Press Service GREAT RIFT VALLEY, Kenya, Sep 06 (IPS) – Between …

Gender Equality Has Everything To Do with Climate Change — Global Issues

Although women interact with the environment and its natural resources more closely than men, they remain underrepresented in climate-related decision-making. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS Opinion by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, August 16, 2024 Inter Press Service When a climatic disaster strikes, women have nowhere to go. They sit out dangerous climatic events, …

Women’s Many Layered Struggles for Climate Justice in Nepal — Global Issues

Women farmers in Helambu, Sindhupalchwok. Women, who are the primary growers, have to deal with changing patterns of snowfall and rain, which is affecting their agricultural activities. However, they feel like no one is listening to their concerns. Credit: Tanka Dhakal/IPS by Tanka Dhakal (kathmandu) Thursday, July 18, 2024 Inter Press …

Women Organize to Fight Coastal Erosion in Southeastern Brazil — Global Issues

A view of the port of Atafona’s fishing boats on the Paraíba do Sul River. The sedimentation of the mouth of the river makes it difficult for larger vessels to enter and they have started to operate in ports in other locations, with additional costs and losses for the economy …

Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in Brazil — Global Issues

Leide Aparecida Souza, president of the Association of Residents of the Genipapo Settlement in the rural area of Acreúna, a municipality in central-western Brazil, stands next to breads and pastries from the bakery where 14 rural women work. The women’s empowerment and self-esteem have been boosted by the fact that …

Women Affected by Gender-Biased Climate Change Deserve Justice — Global Issues

More research is needed into the negative impacts of climate change on women for them to access climate justice. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by Busani Bafana (bulawayo) Thursday, April 11, 2024 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Apr 11 (IPS) – While research into the unequal impacts of climate change on women is growing, …

How Women in Ahmedabad Slums Are Beating Back Climate’s Deadly Heat — Global Issues

Seema Mali at her Odni Chawl one-room home in Ahmedabad city, making marigold garlands to be sold to temple devotees in the evening. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS by Manipadma Jena (ahmedabad, india) Monday, March 18, 2024 Inter Press Service AHMEDABAD, India, Mar 18 (IPS) – Women in Ahmedabad slums work from home …

Peru’s Andean Peoples ‘Revive’ Water that the Climate Crisis Is Taking From Them — Global Issues

Juana María Quispe, a small farmer from the community of Sachac in the Andes highlands of the Peruvian department of Cuzco, is thrilled to see water flowing through a hose from the natural springs that have been revived through community work by building rustic dams, allowing the community’s 200 families …

Charting Out a Sustainable Path for Island, Coastal Communities Facing Climate Crisis — Global Issues

On Arborek Island, Indonesia, shrubs and coral blocks are planted to prevent erosion of the beach. Credit: Alain Schroeder/Climate Visuals by Umar Manzoor Shah (dubai) Monday, December 11, 2023 Inter Press Service DUBAI, Dec 11 (IPS) – There is an irreparable connection between culture and the seas: loss of land due …

Community Solutions Combat Water Shortages in Peru’s Highlands — Global Issues

Fermina Quispe (fourth from the right, standing) poses for photos together with other farmers from the Women’s Association of Huerto de Nueva Esperanza, which she chairs and with which she promotes crop irrigation with solar pumps in her community, Llarapi Chico, located more than 4,000 meters above sea level in …

Growing Appetite for Nutrient-Rich Native Indigenous Australian Foods — Global Issues

Kalkani Choolburra, Aboriginal Programs Coordinator at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, showing the many uses of native plants. Here, she is weaving with a Lomandra leaf. Credit: Neena Bhandari/IPS by Neena Bhandari (sydney) Tuesday, October 03, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Oct 03 (IPS) – Growing up in Sydney, Kalkani Choolburra, …

The Dark Side of Wind and Solar Farms as Sustainable Energy in Brazil — Global Issues

A view of the Canoas Wind Farm, owned by Neoenergia, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. Several wind farms with hundreds of turbines have already been built in the mountains of the Seridó mountain range, which vertically cross the state of Paraíba, in the Northeast region of Brazil, and are …

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