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Loading ...Should Environment PSA’s be Obligatory?
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007How many Americans out there remember the “crying Indian” anti-litter public service announcement (PSA) released in the US television market in 1971 and shown for several years? Did it have an impact on you? Did you start thinking before littering, or get more aggressive in stopping others from littering? I certainly remember it well. The […]
Chile Finally Gets an Environment Minister…Well, Almost
Friday, March 16th, 2007Synopsis in English: Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced yesterday the promulgation of the recently passed law creating the post of President of the National Environment Commission (CONAMA), with effective rank of Minister. Previously the Commission’s work was guided by an Executive Director reporting to a Board of Directors consisting of various Ministers (Health, Agriculture, Transport, […]
A Change in Environmental Licensing of Oil & Gas Projects?
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Synopsis in English: Just days after the PAC was unveiled, the Environment Ministry’s (MMA) #2 man, Claudio Langone, met with the director of the oil and gas (O&G) industry’s trade association (IBP), João Carlos de Luca, to discuss possible changes in environmental licensing of oil and gas projects. The meeting made some in the environment […]
Brazil: Feds Provide Regulatory Guidance on C&D Wastes
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007Synopsis in English: Brazil’s Ministries of Environment (MMA) and Cities (MCidades) has just released a “manual” providing regulatory guidance on the management of “civil construction and voluminous wastes” — more often known elsewhere as construction and demolition (C&D) wastes — and their sorting, recycling and disposal. Ostensively the two Ministries jointly developed the manual to […]
Chile constituye comisión para pronto desarrollo de politica sobre biocombustibles
Monday, December 11th, 2006Synopsis in English: The Agriculture Ministry has created a public-private commission in order to develop a national biofuels policy for Presidential consideration. The commission is supposed to submit its recommendations to the President by end-December, with a view to allowing President Bachelet to submit to Congress in January a bill establishing a new framework law […]
Institutional Limits to Effective Environmental Policymaking
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006Changes Ahead for Peruvian Environmental Policy, or More of the Same? Two weeks ago, while surfing South American blogs, I came across an interesting one covering environmental affairs in Peru. "Ecoperú" (see link on the right-hand sidebar or click on the logo to the right of these words) is a pretty good blog in Spanish done […]
The Other Side of the Cell Phone Revolution
Monday, September 4th, 2006Not Our Problem? A few years ago I was chatting with someone who is involved with the process of formulating a national policy on the management of solid wastes in Brazil. We had gotten to the question of which, if any, end-of-life (EOL) products should be declared to be “special wastes” and therefore subject to […]