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February 12 · Issue #2 · 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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Recap/SDG5: celebramos el día internacional de las mujeres y las niñas en la ciencia por más políticas públicas | ONU Mujeres
Desde 2015, cada 11 de febrero se celebra el Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia, una iniciativa de la ONU que busca visibilizar la desigualdad en las disciplinas científicas- tecnológicas y empoderar a las mujeres en el papel clave que pueden jugar en las ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (STEM por sus siglas en inglés)
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Día internacional de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia: mujeres latinoamericanas en ciencia y tecnología
Más del 60% de las niñas y niños que hoy ingresan a la escuela primaria ocuparán empleos que hoy no existen. El mundo necesita más ciencia y la ciencia necesita a las mujeres y a las niñas. Conoce a estas seis mujeres latinoamericanas que inspiran a nuevas generaciones de niñas y mujeres en ciencia.
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Colombia: leadership in the race against climate change
Colombia’s new Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris climate agreement is one of the most ambitious in Latin America. These three lessons from Colombia’s NDC could help other developing countries update their climate action plans.
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Ecuador: coalition submits amicus brief in Nangaritza case calling for a bold application of the rights of nature in Ecuador
A coalition of forest experts, river protectors, and law professors submitted an amicus brief to Ecuador’s Constitutional Court calling for a robust application of the “Rights of Nature” to protect the Upper Nangaritza River Basin Protected Forest.
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Colombia: biggest coal mine in Latin America accused of human rights violations in Colombia
For over 20 years, there has been a dispute over the impact of coal mining in La Guajira. Indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and campesino groups, along with civil society organizations, clamor that La Guajira has been sacrificed in the name of development.
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Panama: after landmark territorial win, Naso People look to the future
The Naso won their right to a comarca recognizing their ancestral land after a decades-long struggle.
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Regional report: china is expanding its presence in Latin America's energy and strategic minerals industries
The Asian power is making a big push to acquire assets in wind and solar power, plus vital electric transmission and distribution networks; China has committed billions of dollars to lithium projects in Latin America, a region possessing more than half the world’s reserves of this strategic metal.
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Mexico/Webinar: la falta de ambición climática en la NDC de México
Para alarma de organizaciones de la sociedad civil y para la decepción de la comunidad internacional, México NO anunció nuevas metas ni metas más ambiciosas de reducción de emisiones, sino que “reafirmó” las metas que estableció hace 5 años, esto es, reducir 22% de GEI y 51% de carbono negro. Lo anterior evidencia la falta de ambición y de compromiso que México tiene frente a la emergencia climática actual y frente a su responsabilidad como uno de los grandes emisores de GEI en el mundo.
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Regional: sustainable recovery--a unique opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean
Chief of climate change at IDB: “The social and economic fallout of Covid-19 presents a historic opportunity for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) to align climate action with developmental goals.”
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Ecuador: Environmentalist Yaku Pérez, the surprise candidate in Ecuador's elections
Indigenous leader Yaku Pérez led opposition to a Chinese mining company and now looks set to contest Ecuador’s presidential run-off.
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Mexico: iniciativa del gobierno federal en materia de electricidad conlleva graves impactos a la salud y al medio ambiente
Las modificaciones propuestas obstaculizan poder alcanzar los objetivos climáticos establecidos en la Ley General de Cambio Climático y lo comprometido por México en la Contribución Nacionalmente Determinada.
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Brazil: timber imports ‘may have breached US flooring giant’s probation’
In 2016, Lumber Liquidators, a US retailer, paid a record-setting $13 million penalty after pleading guilty to importing flooring manufactured from illegally logged timber. As part of its plea deal, the company, which has since changed its name to LL Flooring, agreed to a five-year probation period during which it committed to an enhanced compliance […]
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Brazil: rethinking Brazilian Development--the political economy of democratic Brazil
Join the Brazil Institute on February 24, 2021 at 2:00pm EST for book discussion on the complicated relationship between democratic institutions, politics, and the economy in Brazil—and what it means for the future of Brazilian development—with author and former BI fellow Matthew Taylor.
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