Achieving the Paris Agreement necessitates transformative changes across all sectors globally, including significant reductions in AFOLU emissions and increased carbon sinks, particularly in Latin America where AFOLU emissions account for 46% of total emissions, mostly driven by commodity agriculture and livestock. This report analyses the status of the sector’s alignment …
This document address the value-added of the right to water, its basis in international law and provide an overview of the content of the right. It also includes a number of resources useful for training and advocacy.
At least 300 Argentine ecologists recently protested after the World Bank indicated that it would go ahead with funding pulp mill projects in neighbouring Uruguay. In the second week of October, the bank announced that the pulp mills met its environmental standards. Protestors blocked roads in the town of Gualeguaychu …
Argentina's biggest oil facility and natural gas producer Pluspetrol has come to a standstill following protests by the indigenous Achuar groups in Peru, who say that crude production is contaminating their environment and damaging their health. At least 700 people took over three oil wells of Pluspetrol in the second …
The Argentinian government has once again unveiled a comprehensive clean-up project for the river La Matanza, better known as Riachuelo, and declared its pollution an "environmental emergency'. In 1993, the government had approved a three-year project to clean the river, but it never started. Environmentalists, however, are optimistic this time, …
weed suit: A Kenyan High Court has rejected a suit filed by over 700 residents of Baringo region of Kenya asking the government to uproot allegedly poisonous weed Prosopis juliflora. In 1983, the Kenyan government had introduced the weed to curb desertification. But now Baringo residents want it uprooted, saying …
A recent poll in Argentina found that 78.3 per cent of people approved the nationalisation of the country's water company as against 10.6 per cent who opposed it. Argentinians backed president N
on march 2, 2006, the Kyoto Protocol got some teeth with its Compliance Committee beginning operations. The 20-member body comprises two branches: the Enforcement Branch and the Facilitative Branch. The former has the power to determine consequences for parties that do not meet their commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, while …
According to you, the net cumulative benefit, since the advent of gm technology in 1996, is US $27 billion. How did you come to that figure? We considered the legally approved acreage of gm crop across the globe and then economic and environmental benefits were calculated based on nominal price …
Biotech biggie Monsanto recently stopped a boatload of Argentine soya in Liverpool, England. Monsanto had earlier sued two importers of Argentine soymeal in Spain, seeking economic compensation and recognition of its patent rights for Roundup Ready soyabeans. In June, 2005, the multinational also sued importers of Argentine soya in Denmark …
• Wildlife film-maker, Mike Pandey and India's Central Zoo Authority were among the recipients of the first Proggy Awards given by the Indian branch of the NGO, People for Ethical Treatment To Animals. • Umbrellas, brochures, stickers and garbage bags are being distributed amongst the visitors to the beaches of …
The Argentine province of Salta decided on November 15, 2005, to cancel the sale of a part of the Pizarro nature reserve to agribusinesses. Indigenous people living off the reserve have been campaigning since February 2004 against the provincial government stripping the reserve of its protected status and auctioning it …
The governor of Argentina's Entre Rios province, bordering Uruguay, recently announced his decision to file a complaint with us -based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, opposing the construction of two pulp mills owned by European firms on the banks of Uruguay river. The river forms the natural border between Argentina …
natural gas / argentina Save mode A rgentina has embarked upon a unique energy conservation programme to make 4.1 million people decrease their natural gas consumption by five to 10 per cent. The scheme to enforce the "rational use' of natural gas gives a clear incentive, a government spokesperson said: …
Certain things can't be bought; among them is people's right over their ancestral land. This message was slapped on Italian business tycoon Luciano Benneton's face recently when he tried to act benevolent with Mapuche and Tehuelche Indians. Benneton had recently offered to put 2,500 hectares (ha) of "good quality' land …
Biotech giant Monsanto will participate in the drafting of a new legislation to regulate the trade of genetically modified (gm) seeds in Argentina. Monsanto (us) had recently complained about non-payment of royalties by the country's farmers who used the Roundup Ready soya seeds for which Monsanto held the patent. It …
function table() { var popurl="html/20040815_negotiation.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } On August 15 last year, the eu and the us put forward a proposal as the basis for negotiations on agriculture at Cancun. It did not accommodate developing country concerns. So Brazil and India got together to work out an alternative one. Argentina …
