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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007A Sign of the Times? On Valentine’s Day in Brasilia a large group of Federal Deputies, with top officials from the Environment Ministry (including Minister Marina Silva), the President of the Chamber of Deputies Arlindo Chinaglia [Workers’ Party (PT) – São Paulo (SP)], and representatives of several key environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) by their side, […]
CAN y Finlandia firman convenio para iniciar Programa Regional de Biodiversidad
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Synopsis in English: The Andean Community (CAN) has signed an agreement (memorandum of understanding – MOU) with the Government of Finland under which the latter will help fund CAN’s four-year Regional Biodiversity Program (“BioCAN”). BioCAN was one of the lines of action envisioned in the recently adopted “Environmental Agenda.” The Program seeks to improve the […]
An Environmental Agenda for the Andes
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007Another piece I started long ago (at the end of Sept.) and left in the queue. I’ll clear the backlog yet! This is one is not over-ripe, though, because the Andean Community is only now implementing the Agenda. The Lima-based General Secretariat of the four-nation Andean Community* (Comunidad Andina – CAN) has released the Community’s […]