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Brazil Will Monitor All Its Biomass by Satellite
Thursday, November 20th, 2008Synopsis in English: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is financing a project by the Brazilian Environment Ministry (MMA) and environment agency (IBAMA) that will expand satellite monitoring to detect deforestation from just the Amazon region (which has been underway since 1988) to all its biomass. Thus monitoring will be added for the Cerrado, Caatinga, [...]
LAC Legislators to Discuss Linkages Between Climate and Financial Challenges / Legisladores de ALC abordarán doble desafío de crisis financiera y climática / Legisladores abordarão o duplo desafio das crises financeira e climática
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008From the World Bank:
Ahead of UN Climate Conference in Poznan-Poland, Senior Legislators to Address Twin Challenge of Financial and Climate Crisis
Seventy senior legislators from across the Americas will gather in Mexico City November 21-23 to examine how to overcome the twin challenges of the global financial and climate crises. The meeting is intended to help [...]
Brazil to Invest R$25 Million by 2012 on Anti-HIV Vaccines / Brasil vai investir R$25 milhões até 2012 em vacinas anti-HIV
Sunday, October 5th, 2008From Brazil’s National Program on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS (STD-AIDS):
R$ 25 million to be invested in Anti-HIV Vaccines by 2012
During the next four years the Brazilian Ministry of Health will invest R$ 25 million in research into the development of a vaccine against AIDS. The resources will be applied in human resource training, laboratory [...]
WHO: Electronic Cigarettes Not Legit Therapy / OMS: cigarrilos electrónicos no son tratamiento legítimo
Friday, September 26th, 2008From the World Health Organization (WHO):
Marketers of electronic cigarettes should halt unproved therapy claims
Contrary to what some marketers of the electronic cigarette imply in their advertisements, the World Health Organization (WHO) does not consider it to be a legitimate therapy for smokers trying to quit.
“The electronic cigarette is not a proven nicotine replacement therapy,” said [...]
Legislators from the Americas to Meet on Climate Change
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008From the World Bank:
CLIMATE CHANGE: LEGISLATORS FROM THE AMERICAS TO MEET IN MEXICO
Organized by the Mexican Congress and GLOBE, with the support of the WB and COM+
Mexico will host the first Forum of the Americas of the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) about climate change, to be held on November 21 and [...]
LAC Meeting on Norm for Energy Management
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Synopsis in English: Last February (while The Temas Blog was on hiatus) the International Standards Organization (ISO) decided to create a new project committee (PC 242 - Energy Management) to develop a new ISO management standard — already designated ISO 50001 — on energy management. The standard will aim at a certifiable approach to [...]
Cell Phone Recycling in Brazil Weak?
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Last month Nokia publicized the results of a survey it commissioned of 6,500 consumers in 13 nations, among them Brazil (the only LAC nation included). By now you know the drill — this is The Temas Blog, so we care mostly about the LAC nation involved and very little about the other [...]
The Challenge of Land Degradation / El desafio de la degradación del suelo
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008I must admit that, just as was the case with deforestation, in the past I paid very little attention to the issue of land degradation. I won’t bore you with the explanations and excuses as to why, just suffice it to say that it was not high enough on my list of priority environment [...]
Why is LAC Slow to Tap Carbon Funds?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008The Dominican Republic’s Environment Secretariat (SEMARENA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently co-hosted an event in Santo Domingo designed to prompt Dominicans into tapping the many international funding opportunities for projects related, directly or directly, to climate change (”carbon markets”).
And well they should! For some [...]
OECS Goes Proactive Regarding Fake Medicines
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Temas Note: To understand better the threat posed by counterfeit medicines and what is being done by others to tackle it, check this prior Temas article.
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From the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS):
OECS Secretariat launches proactive mechanism against Counterfeit Medicines
Law enforcement and health officials from St. Lucia will meet on Thursday 5th June 2008 to [...]
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