Category: Global

Norway’s Development Rethink Should See Ocean Investment as a Strategic Interest

OSLO, Norway, September 24 (IPS) – As Norway undertakes Vendepunkt, or “Turning Point,” its reflection on the future of Norwegian…

From Vienna to New York: Nuclear Governance Faces New Tests Ahead of First TPNW Review Conference

VIENNA, September 24 (IPS) – The international nuclear order is facing another test as governments move from an inconclusive review…

The BBNJ Agreement: From Paper to Protection – The Real Test for Global Ocean Governance

VICTORIA, Seychelles, September 24 (IPS) – After decades in which the high seas were too often treated as a distant…

When African Smallholders Access Finance, They’ll Show You What’s Possible

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 24 (IPS) – I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during…

The Overlooked Fast Track for Cutting Planetary Warming

NEW YORK, September 24 (IPS) – Among the three of us, we have 15 decades of high-level experience in climate…

A New Arms Race is Threatening to Take-off—this time in Outer Space

UNITED NATIONS, September 24 (IPS) – The world’s ongoing arms race is threatening to extend beyond planet earth—and spillover into…

Israeli leader at UN: ‘We’re going to win. We have no other choice’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his address to the UN General Assembly to defend Israel’s strikes against Iran as a…

‘Rising seas are sinking futures’

World leaders approved the UN Declaration on Sea Level Rise by consensus on Thursday as the UN chief warned that…

Haitians can’t wait to return home and vote in elections says Prime Minister

“There is a people. A people who can wait no longer. A people waiting to regain security, to return home…

UNRWA work and mandate in ‘jeopardy’, Guterres warns

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) continues to operate under “extraordinary pressure”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres…