HYDERABAD & MONTREALWe Should Aim to be at Peace with Nature, Says David Cooper of UN Convention on Biological Diversity
In a world faced with habitat loss and species extinction, climate change, and pollution, it’s crucial that countries develop their national action plans and create a society that lives in harmony with nature, says David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in an exclusive interview with IPS.
Press Freedom and Climate Journalism: United in Crisis
Journalism is in crisis, again. The challenges to press freedom are enormous and multi-faceted and they are deepening — in “free” and open societies as well as autocracies. And there are no simple solutions.
For individuals and entire media outlets the crisis is existential.
Drought and Unequal Water Rights Threaten Family Farms in Chile
Lack of water threatens the very existence of family farming in Chile, forcing farmers to adopt new techniques or to leave their land.
The shortage is caused by a 15-year drought and exacerbated by the unequal distribution arising from the Water Code decreed in 1981 by the 1973-1990 dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, which turned water into a tradable commodity and gave its owners rights in perpetuity.
