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NEW YORK, September 22 (IPS) - The Climate Group's annual conference in New York City has attracted thousands of attendees this year, among them world leaders, corporate heads, philanthropists, and climate advocates. Those leaders present at the ...

APEX, North Carolina / SAN FRANCISCO, California / VIENNA, Austria / SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom / GENEVA, Switzerland, September 22 (IPS) - In March 2025, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched "UN80". Recognizing that the world . ...

Rising sea levels and ever-more-powerful storms are eroding shorelines, submerging land and threatening to evict millions of people from their homes worldwide.

Humanity faces four defining "tests of power" - around war or peace, inequality, climate change and AI - that will determine whether the world moves towards a new era of cooperation or deeper division, the UN chief warned the General Assembly on ...

El Niño is strengthening in a world that is already hotter, raising the risk of drought, floods and crop losses across some of the world's most important food-producing regions. But unlike many disasters, this one can be seen coming. UN experts say ...

KIGALI, Rwanda, September 22 (IPS) - Africa is emerging as the world's fastest-growing technology market, with its innovation ecosystem attracting increasing global investment. The European Investment Bank's recent 40 million commitment to the sector ...

Temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C global warming goal set in Paris is widely considered inevitable. The challenge now is to keep that overshoot as small and short as possible by cutting emissions faster, unlocking finance and strengthening ...

Along the coast of Tanzania, in East Africa, the Indian Ocean is pushing saltwater ever farther inland, shrinking coconut harvests, driving fish away and leaving some residents wondering how much longer they can stay.

UNITED NATIONS, September 18 (IPS) - Urbanization can help concentrate jobs, services, and investments; however, it can also concentrate unaffordable housing, insecure employment, and unequal exposure to contamination and environmental threats. A ...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, September 18 (IPS) - Migrants now send home more money than foreign aid, and this is pulling rural families out of poverty, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).