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Loading ...World Bank: Climate Change Adaptation Could Cost $75-100 bn/yr / Banco Mundial: la adaptación al cambio climático costará US$75.000-100.000 millones al año
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009From the World Bank: Adapting to Climate Change to Cost US$75-100 Billion a year New global estimate for cost of adaptation to climate change in developing countries The costs of adaptation to climate change in developing countries will be in the order of US$75-100 billion per year for the period 2010 to 2050 according to […]
IDB Backs Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative / BID respalda Iniciativa para la Transparencia en las Industrias Extractivas / BID endossa Iniciativa pela Transparência nas Indústrias Extrativistas
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): IDB Backs Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative The Inter-American Development Bank has endorsed the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which encourages governments and companies to disclose revenues and payments generated by oil, gas, and mining industries. The endorsement was approved today by the IDB’s Board of Executive Directors. EITI is […]
Brazilian Export of Organic Produce
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry (MAPA) reports that between August 2006 and September 2008 Brazil exported 37,000 metric tons of organic produce worth about US$26.7 million, 32% of it to The Netherlands, 15% to Switzerland, 12% to the US and 7% to the UK. Over half (56%) of the exports were organic soy. Organic exports in 2007 […]
IDB Finances Mexican Work on Climate Change / BID financiará agenda de México sobre cambio climático
Friday, November 21st, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): IDB supports climate change agenda in Mexico Finances innovations and reforms for climate change mitigation and adaptation, along with climate action plans in over 10 Mexican states The Inter-American Development Bank will finance the first national study on the economic impact of climate change, measures to mitigate that impact […]
Electric Cars for Colombia
Monday, October 6th, 2008First Chile, now Colombia. Where next for electric cars in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? The American Multi-services Company (Compañía Americana de Multiservicios – CAM) — 100% owned by Enersis S.A., which in turn is a subsidiary of the Spanish energy multinational Endesa — has announced that it is bringing the REVA electric car […]
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 […]
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 […]
Electric Cars for Chile
Monday, August 4th, 2008Synopsis in English: The American Multi-services Company (Compañía Americana de Multiservicios – CAM) — 100% owned by Enersis S.A., which in turn is a subsidiary of the Spanish energy multinational Endesa — has announced that as soon as the Chilean Transport Ministry (MTT) gives the formal go-ahead (expected by year-end), it will import 100% electric […]