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Update: Colombian Government Finally Gets Its Eco-Teeth
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Nearly a year ago I posted about the environmental sanctions law approved by Colombia’s congress. What I didn’t know at the time of posting was that a week later the Executive Branch would raise formal objections to the law — essentially an attempt at a line-item veto. The Senate and Chamber of Deputies refused in [...]
US$10 Mn. to Support Sustainable Farming in Paraguay
Friday, July 10th, 2009From the International Finance Corporation (IFC):
$10 Million IFC Financing Supports Sustainable Farming Operations in Paraguay IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has provided a $10 million working capital facility to Frontera Agropecuaria del Paraguay (S.A.) to support farming operations in Paraguay.
IFC’s financing will help bring farm land into sustainable production and [...]
$22 Mil. Loan to Help Guatemala’s Protected Areas / Prestamo de US$22 milliones para fortalecer las áreas protegidas de Guatemala
Friday, June 19th, 2009From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
Guatemala strengthens protections for sensitive areas through investments in land registration
A $22 million IDB loan will finance the implementation of a physical cadastral registry for protected areas
Guatemala will bolster its national network of protected areas by improving its land registration system with a $22 million loan from the Inter-American Development [...]
The Largest Basin Clean-up Loan in Latin America
Thursday, June 11th, 2009From the World Bank:
World Bank: Approves Largest Sanitation Operation in Latin America for US$840 Million to Clean the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin in Argentina
The Board of Directors of the World Bank today approved a loan for US$840 million in support of the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin Sustainable Development project. The loan will support the government’s Integrated Basin Cleanup [...]
An Online Database of Marine Protected Areas / Un base de datos online sobre las áreas marinas protegidas
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009From the UN Environment Programme (UNEP):
UNEP launches new online system to view and study the world’s marine protected areas
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK
At a time when the world’s oceans are facing unprecedented pressures from human impacts in the marine environment, a new decision-making tool is being launched to provide the most current [...]
An E-Waste Bill for Colombia
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009After months of rumbling on the issue (here and here), Colombia finally has its first formal proposal to regulate waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE or “e-waste” or “e-scrap”) — in this case, in the form of a bill introduced in the Colombian Senate. Whether or not the bill manages to pass before the 2010 [...]
Wal-Mart Mexico to Promote “Green” Products / Wal-Mart de México promoverá productos “verdes”
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Walmart stores across Mexico and their suppliers* have launched for “Earth Month” (April 16 to May 3) an aggressive environmental awareness campaign in the press, radio and television promoting sustainable products and showing that purchasing them does not hurt the customers’ budgets.
“At Wal-Mart de México we work hand-in-hand with our suppliers to encourage them to [...]
An Energy Loan to Panama with Environmental Components / Un préstamo al sector energético panameño con componentes ambientales
Thursday, March 19th, 2009From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
Panama to consolidate energy sector reforms with support from the IDB
US$100 million loan will underpin the country’s growth and help reduce poverty
Panama will consolidate reforms needed to ensure the sustainability of its energy supplies, underpin economic growth and reduce poverty with financial and technical support from the Inter-American Development Bank.
The [...]
Uruguay Launches Campaign Against Plastic Bags
Monday, March 9th, 2009It’s beginning to look like Uruguay will be the next Latin American jurisdiction to take aim at plastic bags. Uruguay’s Minister of Housing, Zoning and Environment Carlos Colacce, with the British Ambassador at his side, announced today the launch of a media campaign on the responsible use of plastic bags to be known as “Sacá [...]
30 Million Pesos to Clean Up the Matanza-Riachuelo / 30 millones de pesos para sanear la Cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Argentina’s Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development (SAyDS), Bibiloni Homer, just signed agreements with the mayors of municipalities located in the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin, through which federal authorities will provide around 30 million pesos for the establishment of cooperative efforts to clean up trash dumps around the Basin as well as the Basin’s feed-in streams.
The Long-Suffering [...]