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the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency
and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC
【チャンタブリ（タイ）IDN＝ブロンウェン・エバンズ】
タイの農民が有機農業を始めるのには２つの理由がある。ひとつは健康面、もうひとつは経済面である。クムナン・チャンタシットさん（７３）にとっては経済面が動機だった。タイ東部チャンタブリ県に住む彼は、幼少期から同じ土地を耕し続けている。豊かな火山性の土壌であるにも関わらず、かつては必要だと考えていた肥料や除虫剤の代金を支払うために、彼はますます借金地獄にはまり込んでいった。
２６年前、彼はようやく他の方策に目覚めた。それは、タイの故プミポン・アドゥンヤデート国王が提唱した「足るを知る経済」だ。わずか４エーカーで家族の生活を支えられるという統合的な農業のやり方である。これに対し、クムナンさんの土地は８エーカーもあった。…
Por: Shanta Roy
NUEVA YORK (IDN) – La muy publicitada Cumbre sobre la acción climática, organizada por las Naciones Unidas el 23 de septiembre, despegó con una nota no tan positiva a pesar de que fue anunciada como una reunión de alto nivel de los líderes políticos mundiales.
A pesar de las terribles advertencias del Secretario General de la ONU, António Guterres, de una inminente «emergencia climática», con huracanes, sequías, inundaciones y olas de calor en el lejano horizonte, solo 64 oradores, en su mayoría jefes de gobierno y jefes de estado, se presentaron en la cumbre.…
By Jaya Ramachandran
GENEVA (IDN) – In a bold move, new UN report has proposed a series of reform measures to make debt, capital and banks work for development and finance a Global Green New Deal generating a net increase in global employment of at least 170 million jobs, with cleaner industrialization in the South and an overall reduction in carbon emissions by the target year of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.…
Di Shanta Roy
NEW YORK (IDN) – Nonostante fosse stato annunciato come un meeting di alto livello per tutti i leader politici del mondo, il tanto pubblicizzato Climate Action Summit, che si è tenuto il 23 settembre presso le Nazioni Unite, non è cominciato nel migliore dei modi.
Malgrado i disperati avvertimenti del segretario generale dell’ONU, António Guterres, riguardo un’imminente “emergenza climatica”, che porterà uragani, siccità, alluvioni e ondate di calore, al summit si sono presentati solo sessantaquattro rappresentanti, per lo più capi di governo e di stato.…
Par Shanta Roy
NEW YORK (IDN) – Le très médiatisé Sommet Action Climat organisé par les Nations Unies le 23 septembre dernier avait été présenté comme une réunion de haut niveau entre les dirigeants politiques mondiaux. Ce qui ne l’a pas empêché de prendre une tournure pas si positive que cela.
Malgré les avertissements alarmistes du secrétaire général de l’ONU António Guterres contre une « urgence climatique » imminente (avec des ouragans, des sécheresses, des inondations et des vagues de chaleur à l’horizon), seuls 64 intervenants, pour la plupart des chefs de gouvernement et des chefs d’État, ont répondu présent.…
By Shanta Roy
NEW YORK (IDN) – The much-publicized Climate Action Summit, hosted by the United Nations on September 23, took off on a not-so-positive note even though it was billed as a high-level meeting of world political leaders.
Despite dire warnings from UN Secretary-General António Guterres of an impending “climate emergency” – with hurricanes, droughts, floods and heat waves in the far horizon – only 64 speakers, mostly heads of government and heads of state, turned up for the summit. (P15) FRENCH | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH
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By Kwame Buist
BERLIN (IDN) – In the last five years, momentum has been building against corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean. High-level politicians have been found guilty of corruption in Guatemala and Brazil, and a wave of legal action against the perpetrators of grand corruption has swept across the continent, including the Lava Jato – or “Operation Car Wash” – investigation in Brazil.…
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – More than half of the UN members have issued a joint declaration in support of the 2030 Agenda, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) endorsed by the international community in September 2015, and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change adopted three months later.…
By J. Tuyet Nguyen
NEW YORK (IDN) – Governments from Africa, Caribbean, Pacific and the European Union issued on September 24 a joint declaration calling for “bold decisions” to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate change agreements, saying that the two programs are closely linked.…
By Caroline Mwanga
NEW YORK IDN) – Eminent leaders from business, politics, media, the film and music industries gathered in New York on September 22 to spotlight the 8000 km Great Green Wall – natural wonder of the world across the entire width of the African continent – as a practical, low-cost nature-based solution responding to the global climate emergency. They issued an urgent call on governments, civil society and business to join a growing global movement to make the Great Green Wall a reality by 2030.…
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