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Friday, June 29th, 2007Synopsis in English: Last week the Environment Ministry approved the first officially sanctioned reforestation project aimed at capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) as a clean development mechanism (CDM) project under the Kyoto Protocol. The project involves 15,000 hectares in the Chinchina River Basin in the department (similar to a state or province) of Caldas. The project […]
New Grant for Mexico’s National Protected Areas
Friday, June 29th, 2007From the World Bank: Mexico: World Bank Approves US$7.35 Million GEF Grant for National Protected Areas The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a supplemental US$7.35 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for Mexico to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through the consolidation of the National Protected Areas […]
GEF Grants $4.8 Million to Help Costa Rica Upgrade Its National Parks
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Temas Note: This is in addition to the US$20 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank late last year to help Costa Rica’s national park system promote sustainable tourism in the protected areas. From the Global Environment Facility (GEF): Costa Rica gets $4.8 million infusion to upgrade its world-class national parks system The GEF Council […]
GEF Grants US$10 Mil. to Conserve Caatinga / FMAM doar $30 milhões para preservar a Caatinga
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007From the World Bank: Brazil: World Bank Approves US$10 Million Grant for Environmental Conservation The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$10 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to Brazil’s Fundação Luiz Eduardo Magalhães to contribute to the preservation, conservation, and sustainable management of the biodiversity of the Caatinga forest […]
A “Rural Productivity” Loan for Panama with Environmental Dimensions / Un prestamo para la productividad rural en Panamá con aspectos ambientales
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007From the World Bank: World Bank Approves US$39.4 Million to Enhance Rural Productivity in Panama The World Bank’s Board of Directors approved today a US$39.4 million loan for Panama to increase productivity among rural small-scale farmers while protecting important forest, mountain and marine-costal ecosystems. “Achieving improvements in rural income and well-being will require increased productivity […]
Colombia Insists: We’re Serious About Climate Change
Monday, March 19th, 2007Just before the release of the IPPC report, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Territorial Development (MAVDT) held a press conference to assure everyone that global climate change is a priority issue for the Uribe Administration. The fact that Minister Juan Lozano Ramírez felt the need to do so says something. Lozano Ramírez outlined the […]
Combatting Deforestation I: How Bad Is It in LAC?
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007In my “confession and foreword” to the series on deforestation in LAC, I promised to begin with a look at the current state of knowledge about the rate and magnitude of deforestation in in the region. Here is my stab at this topic, building on an entry I originally sketched out last November regarding the […]
Panamanian Project Among First to be CCB Certified
Sunday, March 11th, 2007Panama has one of the first forestry projects certified under Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance’s (CCBA) Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) Standards (download the standards in English or Spanish). Such projects go beyond Kyoto Protocol requirements for carbon financing under the clean development mechanism (CDM). The CCBA is a partnership between research institutions, environment NGOs […]
The World’s Largest Rainforest Park
Friday, March 9th, 2007The North Amazon Mosiac of Protected Areas – Map by WWF Synopsis in English: On 28 February a French decree effectively created the world’s largest rainforest protected area in the northern Amazon. The decree created a 2-million hectare Parc Amazonien de Guyane (“Guyana Amazonian Park”) along the southern border of French Guiana, France’s “overseas department” […]
Is Eco-tourism Sustainable?
Sunday, December 17th, 2006In one of my first posts on this blog, I featured an essay on sustainable tourism by my friend Jaime. If you haven’t read it yet, I suggest checking it out before proceeding with this entry. Today I read a slightly different take on the issue in the 14 December edition of the BBC’s “Green […]