“The work of collecting seeds saved me from depression,” caused by her daughter’s suicide at the age of 29, said Maria do Desterro Soares, 64, who lives in the poor rural community of Jatobá in northeastern Brazil www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/livi...

2025 saw real gains in reducing global hunger; yet climate pressures, economic instability & conflict are pushing agri-food systems to their limits. UN agencies warn that Asia-Pacific, home to 40% of the world's undernourished, is particularly at risk www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/esca...

Farmers can now know and benefit from their contribution to climate change thanks to a formula that can be used to calculate the amount of carbon stored in fruit trees www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/farm...

With funding cuts, institutional reforms and shifting donor priorities reshaping protection and assistance, the global refugee system is entering a period of deep strain. A new Global Synthesis Report highlights the issues faced by refugees in the Middle East & Africa www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/refu...

The humanitarian system’s tank is running on empty – with millions of lives hanging in the balance, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “This is a moment when we are asked to do more and more, with less and less. This is simply unsustainable” www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/mill...

Khalid Mehmood Shaikh, CEO of Sindh People’s Housing, details the housing project's scale: it is in the process of constructing 2.1 million multi-hazard-resistant houses, with 1.45 million under construction, 650,000 already completed, 50,000 added each month www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/sind...

As a financially-stricken UN searches for a new Secretary-General for 2027, the current SG is battling for its very survival, with a hostile White House forcing staff cuts, funding slashes and relocations. The next SG will inherit a virtually devastated UN www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/a-ne...

In 2025, global civic space conditions have deteriorated sharply, with most countries experiencing some degree of obstructed civil liberties, finds the new @civicusalliance.bsky.social "People Power Under Attack" report www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/civi...

Climate Crisis Disrupts Sundarbans Community Festival, Prosperity by me in @ipsnews.net www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/clim...

In many villages people may not have smartphones or internet, but they always have a radio. When forecasts are delivered in the local language, through voices they know, communities understand faster and act immediately, says John Mbise, Tanzania Meteorological Agency www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/how-...

The UN is not reforming because it suddenly woke up one morning inspired by efficiency. It’s reforming because it is broke. The kind of broke where arrears sit at $1.586 billion. And the real solution is embarrassingly practical, writes Stephanie Hodge 👇 www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/un80...

Trump’s announcement on reviving US nuclear testing rekindles nightmares of an era when military personnel and civilians faced devastating radioactive fallout, after more than 2,000 nuclear tests worldwide and 1,032 in the US alone www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/any-...

“I see more philanthropic support aligning with systems thinking, linking climate stability, biodiversity protection, Indigenous leadership, and community resilience,” says Michael Northrop, Program Director at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/fres...

An Afghan woman, once a government employee and active advocate for women’s rights, describes in stark detail what daily life has become under Taliban rule: darkness at dawn, fear on the road to school, and teaching in secret to keep hope alive www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/what...

Arms revenues surged in 2024, as demand was boosted by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, escalating geopolitical tensions, and ever-higher military expenditure. For the first time since 2018, all five largest arms companies increased revenues, according to @sipri.org www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/risi...

We have not recovered from the impact of US funding cuts earlier this year, and closing down @unaids.org early will only make things worse, especially for key populations and other criminalized groups, says Aditia Taslim, International Network of People Who Use Drugs www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/vuln...

The 193-member General Assembly, the UN’s highest policy-making body, routinely designates ”International Days” and “World Days’” on a wide range of subjects and events – from the sublime to the ridiculous www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-...

The US sanctions on the International Criminal Court have intensified the rigid isolation of judges and officials of the Court based in The Hague, Netherlands www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/icc-...

Children are paying the highest price in today’s wars - Actions once condemned by the international community and met with global outrage are now brushed aside as the ‘cost of war’, warns Narmina Strishenets, @savechildrenuk.bsky.social www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/expl...

As observers at #COP30 closely monitored proceedings in Belém, many, such as Yamide Dagnet, approached it as an implementation COP. They are advocating for tangible signals to ignite crucial climate action before the climate crisis reaches irreversible levels www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/cop3...

The #G20 "paralysis is structural." With the South African Presidency ending last weekend, the G20 has once again failed to deliver solutions to the debt crisis. It is time to look to the United Nations for a #debt architecture reform. Read the oped: www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-... @ipsnews.net

Despite nearly 80 developed and developing countries standing firm demanding an end to the use of planet-warming fossil fuels, there is no mention of fossil fuels in the final COP30 agreement, only an oblique reference to the 'UAE consensus' www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/unpa...

As part of the proposed restructuring of the United Nations, there is a move to streamline and revitalize the 193-member General Assembly, the UN’s highest policy-making body, which has been mired in a bureaucratic backlog www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-...

EXPLAINER: #COP30 is determined to build a bridge between promises and performance, words and actions, and there are multiple sticking points in the development of this bridge. In other words, it’s a 'COP of implementation' www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/expl...

An open letter by more than 1,000 organizations from 106 countries to all States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at #COP30 is calling for a people-centered Just Transition www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/just...

Ten years ago, climate policy leadership came from Brussels, Berlin or Paris. Today, it's Beijing & Delhi. China and India are now the engines of the global green economy, with Brazil, Vietnam & Indonesia closely behind, says Erik Solheim www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-... Image Preview for your post

The climate crisis offers a real chance to bring a new vision, rooted in fairness, dignity and harmony with nature. The global community can now balance people, profit, and planet in a way that has not been achieved in the past, says @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social #COP30 www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/braz...

Brazil is Breathing Life into Climate Commitments—Human Rights Lawyer www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/braz... @cicirussell.bsky.social @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30

At the 2nd World Summit for Social Development in Doha #WSSD2, 40+ heads of state endorsed the Doha Political Declaration. But history will judge Doha not by its communiqués but by whether promises on rights, jobs and equity reach people, ✍️@isabelortiz.bsky.social www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-...

The Union of Concerned Scientists at the #COP30 UN climate conference in Belém warn of widespread dissemination of climate disinformation, including social media and traditional media platforms, threatening public health, democracy, and climate policies www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/with...

Devastating climate damages are happening already. This is why #COP30 must send a clear signal that nations are fully on board for climate cooperation, agreeing to strong outcomes on all the key issues, says UN climate chief Simon Stiell www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/cop3...

We Want a Place at the Negotiation Table’ — Indigenous Leader www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/we-w... @cicirussell.bsky.social @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30

When 23 children died from contaminated cough syrup in India, the news barely registered across the border. In Pakistan—where self-medication is rampant and syrup bottles are household staples—the tragedy strikes dangerously close to home www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/a-le...

As #COP30 begins, a silent war unfolds in courtrooms. Corporations are weaponising the law to silence #ClimateDefenders through #SLAPPs. 🔗 Read on @ipsnews.net : www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/sile... #ClimateJustice #CivicSpace #SLAPPs #COP30

The United States will not send any high-level officials to the #COP30 - "The current administration is ceding leadership and leverage over the clean energy future to other countries," says John Noel, @greenpeace.org www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/us-s...

What’s Now Needed is Political Courage, Says UN SG Guterres at COP30 www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/what... @wmo-global.bsky.social @cop30brazil.bsky.social @cicirussell.bsky.social #COP30 #ClimateJustice

Political courage is the biggest obstacle to limiting the rise in global average temperature to no more than 1.5°C, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the opening plenary of the #COP30 Leaders’ Summit in Belém, Brazil www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/what...

"Children are more vulnerable to weather-related crises, (heatwaves, storms, droughts and flooding)" says Catherine Russell, @unicef.org. "Last year, severe weather kept one in seven students out of class" www.ipsnews.net/2025/10/chil...

In eastern Guatemala's Dry Corridor, water scarcity is a relentless threat, making food production harder each year. Yet for many rural communities, it has also become an incentive to adapt and overcome adversities www.ipsnews.net/2025/10/guat...

As Civil Society Is Silenced, Corruption and Inequality Rise www.ipsnews.net/2025/10/as-c... #ICSW2025 @cicirussell.bsky.social

Defending Democracy in a “Topsy-Turvy” World www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/defe... #ICSW2025 @cicirussell.bsky.social @civicusalliance.bsky.social

Challenging Elites, Defending Democracy: Oxfam’s Amitabh Behar Speaks Out www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/chal... #ICSW2025 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @civicusalliance.bsky.social @cicirussell.bsky.social

Strengthening Indigenous land rights will protect more forest in Brazil’s Amazon and avoid large amounts of carbon emission, according to new research released ahead of #COP30 www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/stre...

Financing Tropical Forests now is a COP30 Solution that’s Already Working www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/fina... @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30noBrasil #COP30

Just as any good financial advisor says: diversify to manage risk and improve returns, the same applies to climate strategy. No single approach, technological or nature-based, can deliver the speed, scale, and durability we need, argues Gabriel Labbate, @unep.org www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/as-c...

Three decades after the first Climate COP, the multilateral climate process – which was intended to serve as an instrument of justice and a guardian of the planet’s atmosphere – has fallen far short of its goals, experts warn www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/cop3...

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Deliver Emission Cuts, or Risk Locking the World Into ‘Catastrophic Warming’ www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/deli... @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30 @ipsnews.net #news #COP30noBrasil

Deliver Emission Cuts, or Risk Locking the World Into ‘Catastrophic Warming’ www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/deli... @cop30brazil.bsky.social #COP30 @cicirussell.bsky.social #news #COP30noBrasil

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