By Global Issues CALI, Colombia, Oct 29 (IPS) – As countries are meeting in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 16), the fate of biodiversity hangs in the balance, and with it, the sustainability of our food systems. Read the full story, “Food Security Is Key To Making ‘Peace with Nature’”, […]
By Global Issues CARACAS, Oct 29 (IPS) – Climate finance will be at the epicenter of the discussion at the UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29). The focus will be on strengthening the fund and defining the conditions under which the countries of the Global South will be able to access this money. However, little […]
By Global Issues UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (IPS) – It was two weeks before October 7—when Hamas attacked Israel—that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood behind the rostrum in the United Nations General Assembly hall clutching a crude map of what he called the “new Middle East,” a visual that erased the land of Palestine. Read […]