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February 19 · Issue #3 · View online
We monitor hundreds of bilingual publications and organizations from across the sustainability and climate policy sectors in Latin America. Our human editors vet this content for quality and hand-pick the most stimulating and pertinent policy-related content. We have strong interests on climate adaptation and mitigation, SDG's, water and climate justice, indigenous rights, and gender equity.
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We are pleased to share our first newsletter that includes an analysis and summary of the articles, events, and informational content. Going forward, this will be our new format to help guide our readers through each week’s developments on sustainability and climate change policy in Latin America. We hope to include more content, such as interviews, podcasts, guest authors, and more educational opportunities in the future. While this newsletter remains internal, we are excited to announce that we are preparing to go public soon, so please send us your feedback and ideas! In this Issue: This issue covers legal challenges and inequality in land rights from Indigenous communities in Colombia and Panama, to an increasing number of communities in Honduras, increased gender-based violence in Latin America due to COVID-19, the role of digital technologies in rural communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, accountability to conservation in Mexico, and an in-depth analysis of US foreign aid in the Northern Triangle. We also highlight some exciting events to gain female perspectives on gender equality, climate justice, a Green New Deal for Latin America, and a virtual course opportunity to learn about Andean ecosystems environmental management. We continue to follow the landmark court ruling to recognize the protected Indigenous territory of Comarca for the Naso Tjër Di people in northern Panama and how the adjudication of Indigenous Peoples lands can accelerate conservation efforts. While legal recognition of Indigenous people’s territories is a great first step, the case of predatory wind farm developers establishing misleading agreements with the Wayuu peoples in the Indigenous territory of La Guajira, Colombia, has demonstrated how lack of government oversight or enforcement of Indigenous Peoples land rights has resulted in land leasing regardless of legal rights. Though wind farms are a sustainable energy source, leasing Indigenous territories without proper consultation and consent is not sustainable development. In Argentina, environmental law firm AIDA, has laid a case before the Supreme Court of Mendoza to fight recent regulations allowing for fracking that are argued to violate Argentina’s climate commitments and ignores a legal principle known as the “precautionary principle.” Finally, US foreign aid to Central America has evolved significantly since the 1980s. However, despite improvements in some areas, US foreign policies’ misalignment with US foreign assistance objectives has led to significant shortcomings in these efforts. The Wilson Center’s US foreign aid analysis shows how equitable partnerships and local leadership in assistance efforts are critical to improving foreign interventions. Melina Smith, Research Assistant, Region360.org
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New report, Central America: US foreign aid to the northern triangle 2014–2019: promoting success by learning from the past
Incorporating insights from current and former U.S. officials, development practitioners, and key experts and actors in the Northern Triangle, the report reviews the successes and shortcomings of U.S. foreign aid. Amid current and future challenges of insecurity, poverty, and climate change, resistance by powerful local actors to anticorruption and governance reforms is a significant obstacle to economic growth and social progress in the region.
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Event reminder: cátedra--repensar el futuro de América Latina y el Caribe
La cátedra está compuesta por 13 sesiones gratuitas. Siete se concentrarán en América Latina y el Caribe. Seis se concentrarán en el caso de Colombia, con referencia a los planteamientos efectuados en las sesiones sobre la región.
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Event recap: cinco claves para salvar el medio ambiente en Colombia
En la segunda sesión de la cátedra “Repensar el futuro de América Latina y el Caribe”, dirigida por el presidente del Foro Nacional Ambiental, Manuel Rodríguez Becerra, dos expositores se centraron en posibles alternativas para la transformación social y ecológica de la región, haciendo énfasis en Colombia.
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Virtual event, SDG5: high-level authorities from the region will analyze fulfillment of gender equality commitments in the context of the pandemic
On February 23-25, the 60th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place, organized by ECLAC in coordination with UN Women.
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Colombia: renewable energies in Colombia-all that glitters is not gold
The struggle against climate change can be neutralized by the circumstances and conditions under which the clean energy transition is carried out. The behaviour of wind-energy companies in La Guajira, the territory of the Wayuu indigenous people, serves as an illustrative example.
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Argentina: fracking regulation in Mendoza violates Argentina's climate commitments
AIDA filed a legal brief before the Supreme Court of Mendoza arguing the unconstitutionality of a decree allowing for unconventional oil and gas drilling through hydraulic fracturing.
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Reminder, virtual event, March 4, ecosocialismo: envisioning Latin America’s green new deal
Join us for the first in a special three-part series of online events on some of the most pressing issues facing the region, while also celebrating NACLA’s 50-year history of promoting hemispheric solidarity and critical analysis.
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Panama, follow up: Indigenous community wins recognition of its land rights in Panama
The Naso Tjër Di people of Panama now have a protected territory of their own. The creation of the 1,600-square-kilometer (620-square-mile) comarca, as it’s called in Panama, came as a result of a recent decision by the country’s Supreme Court recognizing the Indigenous nation’s land rights.
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Mexico, biodiversity: el gobierno deberá explicar alta mortandad de tortugas caguama
Bajo lo establecido en el Tratado de Libre Comercio entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (T-MEC), el gobierno mexicano deberá responder ante el Secretariado de la Comisión para la Cooperación Ambiental (CCA), por la muerte de cientos de tortugas caguama (Caretta caretta) en las costas del Golfo de Ulloa en Baja California Sur.
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Online course: IPROMO 2021 Latinoamericano: gestión sostenible de socio-ecosistemas en los Andes
En los distintos temas del curso, se analizan de forma integral las interacciones socioeconómicas, ambientales y políticas que influencian positiva y negativamente en la sostenibilidad de los ecosistemas andinos, en donde tanto los conocimientos locales, como la visión técnico-científica se conjugan en un diálogo constructivo.
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Regional, SDG9: expertos instan a Latinoamérica a cerrar la brecha digital en zonas rurales
Un grupo de expertos señaló que Latinoamérica y el Caribe debe redoblar esfuerzos para cerrar la brecha digital en las zonas rurales, con el fin de llevar desarrollo a esos sitios y aumentar la productividad agrícola.
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Virtual event: forum of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on sustainable development 2021
La Cuarta Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible se llevará a cabo en forma virtual, del 15 al 18 de marzo de 2021, bajo la Presidencia de Costa Rica.
Con anterioridad al inicio de las actividades oficiales del Foro, el día 15 de marzo se realizarán actividades de la sociedad civil y otros actores relevantes. El registro de participantes estará disponible entre el 15 de febrero y hasta el 12 de marzo de 2021.
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Honduras, governmentally, development: a private government in honduras moves forward
Government promises of fantastical new city projects that would build a “Honduran Hong Kong” appeared to be smoke and mirrors, as behind the scenes attempts to establish ZEDEs were largely kept secret from the public.
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Regional, gender quality: a pandemic within a pandemic: violence in Latin America against women and the LGBTQ+ community
Violence against women and members of the LGBTQ+ community during the COVID-19 pandemic has often been classified as a “pandemic within a pandemic.” This is certainly true in many Latin American countries, where this violence and discrimination has long plagued society.
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