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“Future Prosperity Is in Green Technologies”
In times of economic crisis, the shift to a low-carbon economy is the smartest investment any country can make, says United Nations Environment Program chief Achim Steiner in this Tierramérica interview.Ecobreves – CHILE: Promoting Inclusive Recycling
Very few municipalities in Chile apply “clear policies for waste management, with environmental, economic and social components, where all benefit,” Exequiel Estay, secretary-general of the National Movement of Recyclers, told Tierramérica.Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA: Honduras and El Salvador Agree on Water Management
The governments of Honduras and El Salvador will launch a binational project in 2009 to manage the water resources they share in the Lempa River zone, Karen Zelaya, the Honduran minister of cooperation, told Tierramérica.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: GPS to Monitor Harpy Eagle
Dozens of harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja) are being tracked by GPS, the satellite location system, after being captured and released for research in the Imataca mountains, in southeastern Venezuela.
GUATEMALA: Lachua, a Corner of the Jungle Resists
Guatemala’s Laguna Lachuá National Park is a small corner of the Central American jungle that has withstood the encroachment of oil exploration, monoculture crops and road building, and serves as the area for sustainable development projects run by the indigenous people who live there.
Lachuá, a Corner of the Guatemalan Jungle Resists
The Laguna Lachuá National Park aims to be a model of sustainable development in a unique ecosystem, but it is surrounded by threats.Ecobreves – MEXICO: Promising Invention for Spinal Injuries
Mexican researchers have synthesized a polymer that promises to restore the electrical connections in a damaged spinal cord, which could help injured people recover mobility.
“Politicians and Executives Have Obsolete Ideas of How Nature Works”
If they could, our politicians and business executives would try to squeeze the last drop of fertility out of our soils to make the last dollar or peso by over-exploiting nature, says the straight-talking U.S. conservationist and investor Douglas Tompkins.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: From Garbage to Micro-Enterprise
Some 30 families from the community of El Volcán, in the central Honduran valley of Comayagua, launched a project this month to recycle garbage.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Industries that Save Forests
The industrial complex established in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaos at a cost of heavy subsidies since 1967 has reduced deforestation in the northeastern state of Amazonas by 70 percent between 2000 and 2006.Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: International Dialogue on Climate Change
"Adaptation, mitigation, technology transfer and financing" were the issues dealt with at the climate change meeting that drew environment ministers from 25 countries to the southern Argentine city of El Calafate.
MEXICO: Time Running Out for Capital’s Garbage
If the Mexico City government were to keep its promises, laid out in laws and plans in 2003 and 2004, the treatment of the 12,300 tonnes of garbage generated daily by this city of 19 million people would be more environmentally friendly. But instead there is a looming threat of collapse and the contaminated area remains enormous.
BRAZIL: Courts – the Battleground for Fight Against Paper Mills
The battle against the wood pulp ndustry has intensified in the Brazilian courts, especially in those states where eucalyptus plantations have expanded the most: Bahia and Espírito Santo in the east and Rio Grande do Sul in the south.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Adiós to Controversial Forestry Agency
The much-criticized Honduran forestry development agency, Cohdefor, officially halted operations on Monday, Sep. 15, after more than three decades, and ceding the way for the new governmental body, the Forest Conservation Institute (IFC).Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Amazon Boat Runs on Solar Power
The first solar-powered boat is already navigating rivers in the Brazilian Amazon. Weighing 250 kilograms and a capacity to carry four people, the Siesuí 1 serves a hotel on the Araçá River in the northwestern state of Amazonas.Ecobreves – CHILE: Progress on Native Forest Law
Chile's Ministry of Agriculture opened the registration period until Sep. 29 to run for a post on the Consultative Council of the Law on Native Forest Recovery, published in the Official Newspaper of Jul. 30.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Transit and Garbage on the Electoral Agenda
The combined problem of garbage and transit in Caracas awaits solutions in the final stretch of municipal and regional elections to take place in November across Venezuela.
Time Running Out for Mexico City's Garbage
The capital of Mexico, home to nine million people, has a gigantic dump that is on the verge of collapse and emits two million tons of climate-changing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually.
MONTREAL PROTOCOL: A Global Partnership for Global Benefits
The elimination of some of the substances that deplete the ozone layer could also mean reducing emissions of up to 25 billion tons of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, writes expert and UNEP official Silvie Lemmet.Ecobreves – MEXICO: Teachers Lacking in Natural Sciences
An assessment of science teachers of secondary schools in Mexico shows that they know very little about physics, chemistry or biology.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: United Front Against Illegal Logging
The Honduran National Human Rights Commission signed a pact with civil society groups and the government as part of a shared strategy to halt illegal logging and lumber trafficking.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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