A project of the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency in partnership with Soka Gakkai International in consultative status with ECOSOC
A Joint Media Project of
the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency
and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – Time is running out for countries to achieve the global goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). A new report warns that if current trends continue, up to 5 billion people will still be unable to access health care in 2030 – the deadline world leaders have set for achieving universal health coverage. Most of those people are poor and already disadvantaged.…
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK (IDN) – A landmark new report has underlined the glaring – and growing – gap between agreed targets to tackle global warming and the actual reality. The report, United in Science, includes details on the state of the climate and presents trends in the emissions and atmospheric concentrations of the main greenhouse gases. It highlights the urgency of fundamental socio-economic transformation in key sectors such as land use and energy in order to avert dangerous global temperature increase with potentially irreversible impacts. It also examines tools to support both mitigation and adaptation.…
Ng Bronwen Evans *
CHANTHABURI, Thailand (IDN) – Mayroong karaniwang dalawang kadahilanan kung bakit ang mga magsasaka ng Thai ay tumatanggap ng mga organiko – ang isa ay kalusugan at ang isa ay pang-ekonomiya. Para sa 73 taong gulang na si Kumnung Chanthasit ito ang pang huli. Pinasaka niya ang parehong balangkas ng lupa sa silangang lalawigan ng Chanthaburi ng Thailand mula pagkabata. Sa kabila ng mayamang lupa ng bulkan, natagpuan niya ang kanyang sarili na lumubog at mas lumubog sa utang habang siya ay nahihirapan na magbayad para sa mga pataba at pestisidyo na akala niya ay kailangan niya.…
Oleh Bronwen Evans *
CHANTHABURI, Thailand (IDN) – Umumnya ada dua alasan mengapa para petani Thailand merangkul bahan-bahan organik – alasan pertama adalah dari sisi kesehatan dan alasan lainnya adalah dari sisi ekonomi. Bagi Kumnung Chanthasit, seorang pria berusia 73 tahun, itulah yang terakhir. Dia telah bertani di tanah yang sama di provinsi Chanthaburi di Thailand timur sejak kecil. Terlepas dari tanah vulkanik yang subur, ia mendapati dirinya tenggelam dalam hutang ketika ia berjuang untuk membayar pupuk dan pestisida yang ia butuhkan saat itu.…
โดย บรอนเวน อีแวนส์ (Bronwen Evans)*
จันทบุรี ประเทศไทย (IDN) – มีสองเหตุผลทั่วไปเกี่ยวกับสาเหตุที่ชาวนาไทยจึงนิยมใช้เกษตรอินทรีย์ – หนึ่งในนั้นคือสุขภาพและอีกหนึ่งเหตุผลคือเศรษฐกิจ สำหรับ Kumnung Chanthasit วัย 73 ปี นั้นเป็นเหตุผลหลัง เขาทำนาในที่ดินแปลงเดิมในจังหวัดจันทบุรีทางภาคตะวันออกของประเทศไทยตั้งแต่ยังเป็นเด็ก แม้จะเป็นดินภูเขาไฟที่อุดมสมบูรณ์ เขาพบว่าตัวเองเขากลับจมลึกลงไปในหนี้สินมากยิ่งขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ เนื่องจากเขาต้องกระเสือกกระสนในการชำระค่าปุ๋ยและยาฆ่าแมลงที่เขาคิดว่าจำเป็นต้องใช้ี…
By Bronwen Evans*
CHANTHABURI, Thailand (IDN) – There are generally two reasons why Thai farmers embrace organics – one is health and the other is economics. For 73-year old Kumnung Chanthasit it was the latter. He had farmed the same plot of land in Thailand’s eastern province of Chanthaburi since boyhood. Despite the rich volcanic soil, he found himself sinking deeper and deeper into debt as he struggled to pay for the fertilisers and pesticides he thought he needed. (P14) INDONESIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | TAGALOG | THAI
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Viewpoint by Luis Alfonso de Alba
The writer is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Climate Action Summit.
NEW YORK (IDN) – Climate change is not a far-away problem – it is causing huge damage right now in Asia-Pacific and around the world. From air pollution choking many major cities, to more extreme heat and natural disasters, to one million species at risk, the urgent need for climate action is clear.…
Viewpoint by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, President, Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
TOKYO (IDN) – “That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it,” observed Aristotle, highlighting an all-too-common human tendency. His warning is still relevant today, especially in our fight against climate change. CHINESE | JAPANESE | ITALIAN｜SPANISH…
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Since independence, natural resources in Kenya have been on a fast track to extinction. Today, nearly half of all its forests are gone, resulting in more droughts, floods and other dire consequences for communities, ecosystems, food security and infrastructure.
From 10% of the country covered in forest in 1963, noted Kaluki Paul Mutuku, Youth4Nature Regional Coordinator, Africa Group, only 6% was covered in 2009.…
By Josephine Latu-Sanft
The writer is Senior Communications Officer, Communications Division, Commonwealth Secretariat.
LONDON (IDN) – In the lead up to September 23 global climate summit in New York and barely two weeks after Hurricane Dorian battered The Bahamas, the Commonwealth’s top official is calling for urgent action to tackle climate change and its disastrous impacts.…
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