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LAC Water Center Created / Crean Centro del Agua para ALC
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Temas Note: While the idea of a center focussed on water and sanitation issues in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region generally appeals to me, I have to ask why in this form, in this locale, and with these sponsors? Doesn’t the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) already have a Pan American Center for [...]
IDB to Host LAC Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility / BID celebrará conferencia regional sobre responsabilidad social empresarial
Friday, November 21st, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
IDB to hold regional conference on corporate social responsibility
In Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, December 4-5
The Inter-American Development Bank will host December 4-5 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, the 6th Inter-American Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
The event organized by the IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and Colombia’s National Industry Association [...]
A New Fund for Water and Sanitation in LAC / Nuevo fondo para agua y saneamiento en ALC / Novo fundo para água e saneamento em ALC
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
IDB and Spain establish new fund to improve water and sanitation in Latin America and Caribbean
The government of Spain and the Inter-American Development Bank signed an agreement to cooperate in the execution of the Fund for Cooperation for Water and Sanitation, a Spanish initiative that is expected to provide up [...]
New Alliance to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility in LAC
Thursday, October 30th, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
IDB and Mitsubishi Corporation to promote social corporate social responsibility
Agreement marks Bank’s first strategic alliance with an Asian corporation
The Inter-American Development Bank and Mitsubishi Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote corporate social responsibility efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean.
IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno and Masatoshi Nishizawa, [...]
OPS prevé aumento de 150% en casos de diabetes en las Américas / Diabetes cases may increase 150% in the Americas
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Synopsis in English: 14 November is World Diabetes Day, and the news coming out of the annual meeting of the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) top body suggests that every country in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) should observe it seriously and soberly. PAHO says that obesity and diabetes in the Americas is reaching [...]
New PAHO Commitment to Combat Cervical Cancer / Nuevo compromiso de la OPS para combatir el cáncer cervicouterino
Friday, October 3rd, 2008From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO):
Countries Pledge New Action to Reduce Cervical Cancer Deaths
PAHO strategy calls for strengthening existing programs and adopting new technologies
Member countries of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) pledged support today for a new PAHO strategy to fight cervical cancer, a disease that claims some 27,500 women’s lives each year [...]
IDB Grants to Jump-Start Water & Sanitation Projects / Donaciones del BID para impulsar proyectos de agua y saneamiento / Doações do BID para projetos de saneamento e água
Sunday, September 21st, 2008From the Inter-American Development (IDB):
IDB offers grants to jump-start water and sanitation projects
Aquafund will finance project preparation and technical assistance to develop solutions for pressing water and sanitation problems
Latin American and Caribbean governments that want to improve water and sanitation services can now apply for grants from the Aquafund, a new source of financing approved [...]
LAC Could Save US$36 bn Via Energy Efficiency / ALC podrían ahorrar US$36mil millones con eficiencia energética
Monday, September 15th, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
Latin America and the Caribbean could save US$36 billion through energy efficiency investments by 2018
New IDB report compares energy consumption, fuel and electricity prices; claims efficiency could be region’s largest untapped source of energy
Latin American and Caribbean countries could save an estimated US$36 billion over the next decade by adopting [...]
The Economics of Climate Change in the Caribbean / La economía del cambio climático en el Caribe
Sunday, September 14th, 2008From the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC):
ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CARIBBEAN
ECLAC study to review policy and provide country-by-country assessments of its impacts.
A review of the economics of climate change in the Caribbean will be the subject of a study to be undertaken by ECLAC Sub-regional Headquarters for [...]
Red de Consumo y Producción Sustentables para América Latina y Caribe
Monday, August 25th, 2008Synopsis in English: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the State Environment Secretary of São Paulo (SMA) and the Environmental Sanitation Technology Company (CETESB) (São Paulo’s technical environment agency) recently signed a cooperation agreement aimed at launching the Network of Information and Training in Sustainable Consumption and Production for Latin America and the Caribbean (Red [...]
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