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Image: Conclusion of international conference. Source: Stockholm+50

A $100 Billion Pledge to Battle Climate Change Fails to Materialize

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — At the Stockholm+50 international conference in Sweden in early June, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep disappointment over the failure of rich nations to provide financing to mitigate the devastating consequences of climate change, including droughts, floods, heat waves, pollution and biodiversity loss worldwide.

The shortfall in funding has also derailed the implementation of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including poverty and hunger eradication, by 2030.

: Thalif Deen; SUSTAINABILITY; Climate Action; 07 June 2022

Photo: Health workers moved their patients, their beds, their equipment and themselves down to the bomb shelters built in the basements decades before during the cold war era. © Anne Pellichero

War Has Put Ukraine’s Health System Under Severe Pressure

By Jamshed Baruah

GENEVA (IDN) — World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an updated appeal for US$ 147.5 million, to support Ukraine’s worsening humanitarian need, provide immediate healthcare delivery and help the health system stay resilient for the longer term.

Of this total, US$ 80 million is needed for in-country support, such as distributing medicines and delivering vital healthcare services and a further US$ 67.5 million is required to assist refugee-receiving and hosting countries, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Moldova and Romania.

: Jamshed Baruah; SUSTAINABILITY; Health & Well Being; 07 June 2022

About Football-, Pandemic-, Kremlin- and Military Experts

This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission.

Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf

A satirical essay that skewers the age of instant experts

BONN (IDN) — A glance at the analyses and conclusions of just about any major newspaper or news website will confirm: the self-proclaimed military experts are in charge, ready to explain to us what "heavy weapons", "no-fly zones", "anti-aircraft guns", "flagships" etc. are. And why not? They’ve been dealing with the matter for quite some time now, a whole two months since February 24, 2022.

: Opinion Editor; OPINION; 07 June 2022

Photo: Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matviyenko.

Russian Delegation Brings Humanitarian Aid to Zimbabwe

By Kester Kenn Klomegah*

MOSCOW | HARARE (IDN) — Humanitarian aid issues are increasingly dominating the foreign policy priorities of the Russian Federation, but such charitable supplies are only reaching Soviet-era allied countries where top-level Russian delegations frequently visit in Africa. Early June, the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matviyenko, headed a group of Russian senators on a reciprocal inter-parliamentary visit to Harare, Zimbabwe.

: Kester Kenn Klomegah; THE WORLD; Russia; 06 June 2022

Photo (L to R): MK Gandhi and Sardar Patel. Source: Counterview

India: Modi Government and the Vision of Gandhi-Patel

Viewpoint by Dr Ram Puniyani

This article is the 20th in a series of joint productions of South Asian Outlook and IDN-InDepthNews, the flagship of the International Press Syndicate. The writer is a former professor of biomedical engineering and former senior medical officer affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (now Mumbai) and meanwhile a social activist and commentator.

: Asia Editor; THE WORLD; South Asia; 05 June 2022

From Limits to Growth to Regeneration 2030

Viewpoint by Jeffrey D. Sachs

This article was published in Il Sole 24 Ore for the Trento Festival of Economics, June 4, 2022, and is being republished with the authors’ permission

NEW YORK (IDN) — Fifty years ago, Italian business leaders in the Club of Rome gave a jolt to the world in their path-breaking report Limits to Growth. That thought leadership continues today as Italian business leaders launch Regeneration 2030, a powerful call for more holistic, ethical, and sustainable business practices to help the world achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement.

: UN Bureau; OPINION; 05 June 2022

Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel

By Marc Raboy

Marc Raboy (http://www.marcraboy.org/) is a writer, journalist, and emeritus professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This article is based on his latest book, “Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel”, published in April 2022 by Oxford University Press.

MONTREAL, CANADA — June 17, 1976, was a brisk winter’s day in Mendoza, the capital of Argentina’s wine country.

: UN Bureau; THE WORLD; Latin America & the Caribbean; 04 June 2022

Photo: Mingo Distribution in The Philippines. Greenpeace donated Mingo (an instant moringa rice & mongo blend for 6 to 30 months old babies) in Dolores, The Philippines, as a solution to address malnutrition that exists in the area. CREDIT: © Alanah Torralba / Greenpeace

Cultivating The Flowers of Hope

Viewpoint by Anabella Rosemberg

The writer is International Programme Director at Greenpeace International.

AMSTERDAM (IDN) — On days like World Environment Day, intriguing, outraging and surprising data about the damage being done to the environment are often shared and spoken of. Too often these stories about our ailing planet only further eco-anxiety and stunt rather than spur action. After all, there are plenty of terrifying facts to choose from. An awful lot. Scarily too many.

: Opinion Editor; OPINION; 04 June 2022

Photo: Official Portrait of Attorney General Merrick Garland (2021). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Swiss Firm Fined Billion Dollar for Massive Bribery in Africa

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK (IDN) — Illicit payments, multiple counts of bribery and market manipulation were among the many misdeeds of Glencore International and Glencore Ltd, a Swiss-based commodity trading and mining company according to numerous reports in the press.

Over a 10-year period, bribes worth millions were lavished on government officials of West Africa and Latin America in return for preferential access to oil, according to US court filings.

: Global Information Network; THE WORLD; Africa; 03 June 2022

Photo: 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Wole Soyinka during a lecture at Stockholm Public Library on October 4, 2018. CC BY-SA 4.0

Wole Soyinka Wants Nigeria to End Killings of Women and Children

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK (IDN) — As Americans grapple with the proliferation of guns used against minorities, elders, children, immigrants and victims chosen randomly, Nigerian Professor Wole Soyinka has launched a similar campaign against the rising rate of intentional homicides that the Nigerian government has failed to reverse.