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    Promoting Renewable Energy in Costa Rica

    Thursday, July 10th, 2008

    A bill has been introduced in Costa Rica’s national assembly by Deputy José Merino del Río that aims at promoting a faster switch to renewable energy sources by exempting from taxes the following items: Solar water heaters for all uses whose efficiency has been certified by an accredited laboratory; Storage tanks for thermosyphon solar water […]

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    Maps, Maps and More Maps

    Monday, June 2nd, 2008

    In a prior post on the Temas library of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) legal texts for download, I promised to highlight other changes and additions to the updated site. The biggest addition to the site has been the Temas Tools Section, a collection of references and tools that help in understanding, shaping and managing […]

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    LAC Solar & Wind Potential Maps Updated

    Friday, November 30th, 2007

    In putting together standalone pages for LAC solar and wind power potential maps on my revamped main website (temasactuales.com) — announcement of its relaunch coming soon! — I discovered that many of the links in my two existing blog posts on this subject — "Mapping LAC's Solar and Wind Power Potential" and "More LAC Wind […]

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    More on Brazilian Attitudes About the Environment

    Thursday, July 12th, 2007

    Recently Seattle-based Global Market Insite (GMI) kindly shared with me the results for Brazil of this year’s edition of their World Environment Review poll. The 2007 edition polled 14 countries (Brazil was the only Latin American nation) using GMI’s online data collection platform and global consumer panels. GMI says that the survey has a representative […]

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    A Sustainable Biofuels Policy for Chile?

    Monday, March 19th, 2007

    I scribbled some notes on this story when the report was first released in late January. But when I could not get back to finishing and publishing it right away, I thought about just dropping it because I half-expected President Bachelet to act on it quickly. Instead she appears to be holding off, digesting it […]

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    More LAC Wind and Solar Maps

    Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

    A few months back I did a post on what wind and solar power potential maps for the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries could be found on the internet, and promised updates on others as I found them. Well, it might take me awhile to do so, but I usually do come through […]

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    Should Brazil Get More Credit for Climate Change Steps Already Taken?

    Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

    This one has been sitting in the backlog queue since November, demanding to be finished and released. Recent comments by Environment Minister Silva gave me a new reason to do so and a “hook” to hang it on besides! Just as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in Paris earlier this month its […]

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    OAS Examines Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Caribbean

    Saturday, January 20th, 2007

    From the Organization of American States (OAS): SEMINAR LAUNCHED AT OAS: CLIMATE CHANGE IN CARIBBEAN DEMANDS URGENT MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION The Caribbean region is already suffering some of the negative impacts of climate change, and urgent action must be taken to mitigate the effects of such human activities as over-fishing and pollution, a group of […]

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    Eye on Ads: Jamaica’s Solar Mascot

    Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

    Meet “Solar Man,” the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica’s (Petrojam or PCJ) new mascot to promote solar power to Jamaicans. [PCJ is the state-owned energy company created in 1979 and charged by law in 1995 to help the government realize its energy policy.] Although he looks a bit like a walking mattress, he’s supposed to represent […]

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    A Bright Future for Solar in LAC?

    Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

    Seeking Enlightenment  In a prior entry I wrote about the special maps indicating solar and wind power generation potential among Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) nations.  But knowing what average daily radiation rates in any given area is only part of the equation.  I've been on the lookout for quite awhile for a study that […]

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