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DUBAI, Dec 05 (IPS) - Aditi Agarwal, a brilliant computer science engineer and Gold Medalist, once thrived in the tech world, contributing to innovations at Microsoft. However, she felt a calling to address real-world challenges, particularly those related to carbon emissions and plastic pollution. In pursuit of a nobler cause, she joined a company called Go Rewise, a youth-led initiative in India dedicated to recycling PET bottles through a circular economy approach.

In an exclusive interview with IPS, Yamide Dagnet, the Director for Climate Justice at Open Society, delves into the details of COP28.

Progress roundup: To unlock the power of reading, Lego now sells bricks with Braille, and an app is helping 350,000 people in their native tongue.

John Cabot University, founded in 1972, is an independent, four-year liberal arts university offering undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees, and study abroad programs to English-speak

Nika Gvaramia, the only journalist in Georgia sentenced to prison in retaliation for his work

Carbon offset programmes faced fresh scrutiny as a governing body for the voluntary carbon market issued new quality standards.

Going by the Presidential decree of March 31, 2023, a total of 11 persons are making their maiden entry, 19 maintained and 10 are out of the House.

Rising interest rates and slowing global growth risk tipping a large number of countries into crisis, Baher Kamal reports.   By Baher Kamal in Madrid Inter Press Service The external debt of the world’s low- and middle-income countries at the end of 2021 totaled $9 trillion, more than do

GUS: DEBT HAS BEEN USED BY THE WEST, AKA THE USA, AS A MEANS TO KEEP MANY NATIONS UNDERFOOT. ITS THE NEW (OLD) FORM OF COLONIALISM THAT IS MANIPULATED BY THE SUPPLIERS OF CASH.

"A suicide pact." Robert Sandford skewers the latest U.N. climate summit, held last month in Egypt, and calls for a new process protected from the global fossil fuel cartel.  By Robert Sandford Inter Press Service Last year’s climate COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, was billed as the most im