Colombia Offers 2 Draft Rules on Detergents for Public Comment
Monday, January 12th, 2009Colombia’s Environment Ministry (MAVDT) has released for public comment two draft resolutions that, once adopted, would become binding rules on the detergent sector. The scope for both is the same: washing and cleaning products in any form (liquid, powder, paste, bar, cake, molded forms, etc.) and whether marketed for household, institutional, industrial or service uses. […]
Cleaning Up the Bogotá River
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Synopsis in English: The Environment Ministry (MAVDT), the Autonomous Regional Corporation of Cundinamarca (CAR) and the Aqueduct and Sewer Company (EAAB), and the Capital District’s Environment Secretariat recently signed an agreement for $1.5 billion to clean up the one of Colombia’s most contaminated rivers, the Bogotá. The main component of the agreement is the expansion/upgrade […]
Cleaning Up One of Colombia’s Dirtiest Rivers
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Synopsis in English: A co-financing agreement has been signed to get moving a project to clean up Colombia’s third most contaminated river basin, the Chicamocha (the two most contaminated are the river basins of the Bogotá and the Medellín). The 98.86 billion peso (about US$41.8 million at current exchange rates) project will be funded with […]
IDB “Infrastructure” Funds with an Environmental Twist / Financiamento del BID para “Infrastructura” con Dimensiones Ambientales
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently has approved several projects that it labels as involving infrastructure, but to my mind, have a pronounced environmental slant. IDB officials will of course claim that most of its loans in the last 10-15 years have had an environmental dimension, especially those involving infrastructure. Most Bank critics will retort […]