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 …
A document that will aid in conserving the environment of Argentina has been drafted by the country's non-governmental organisations. The document will become the country's national strategy to protect biodiversity. "The document talks about the best ways to conserve biodiversity along with sustainable use of its components within the context …
The Argentine house of representatives has recently approved the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. "With this, Argentina formally backs the survival of the agreement,' said Juan Carlos Villalonga, energy campaign coordinator of Greenpeace, an international pressure group. According to him, Argentina is already facing the effects of climate change such …
A national plan for the elimination of polyclorinated biphenyls (pcbs) was recently adopted by the Argentine government. This has been done to phase out the harmful chemicals by 2025. "Once we conduct an inventory of the existing pcbs we will introduce a bill banning their use,' said Oscar Massei, secretary …
To contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, Indonesia has banned the import of leather goods from Argentina and France. The country's agriculture department issued the ban and said that it would lift the ban only after Argentina and France are declared free from the highly contagious disease (see Down To …
In a bid to protect its beef exportsthe Argentine government concealed an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease for monthsaccording to media reports. This disclosure was followed by an immediate ban of Argentine beef by the usthe European Union and other countries. The country's agriculture minister and the head of the …
Argentina's diverse ecology is being used to test the ability of a satellite of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (nasa), EO1. Argentina was chosen for the testing because of its enormous biodiversity. "It has ecosystems that are equivalent to going to Hudson Bay in Canada and all the way …
European beef has been banned in Argentina. Fearing the spread of spongiform encephalopathy (bse), Argentina has banned the import of European beef, lamb, mutton and any products containing such meat. The ban does not include pork, poultry or meat from other animals. The government said that the people must be …
Argentine ants are making the US their home. Biologists of the University of California in San Diego ( uscd ) have discovered the biggest colony of ants
The proposal of a German organisation to plant trees in Argentina is facing large-scale opposition from the country's environmentalist.Prima Klima, a non-governmental organisation, is planning to undertake a tree planting project covering an area of 125,000 hectares in the province of Chubut located in the Argentine part of Patagonia. The …
The Argentinean government has ordered 3,000 cattle to be killed, after ten Paraguayan cattle were found to be infected with antibodies of the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease. According to agricultural officials, the cattle were not suffering from active cases of the disease. Since Argentine exports for grass-fed beef are …
At least seven people have been killed and over 6,000 people rendered homeless by massive floods caused by persistent torrential rainfall in northeastern Argentina. Social development minister Graciela Fernandez Meijide said that flood waters had washed away roads, downed electrical and telephone lines and threatened the water supply in at …
The administration of Brazil's southern-most state has planned a crackdown on illegal cultivation of soyabean from genetically modified ( gm ) seeds smuggled from neighbouring Argentina. Adopting a firm stance against the growing demand for gm seeds, the Rio Grande do Sul State has launched a blistering attack on the …
Work has started on the Pierre Auger Southern Observatory in Argentina. This observatory, when completed in 2003, will be the world's largest cosmic ray observatory, with 1,600 detectors spread over 3,000 sq km. The detectors consist of water tanks fitted with photo-multipliers that detect the light given out by water …
Astrophysicists from around the world gathered near the town of Malargue in Mendoza province of Argentina in the second week of March. Their aim was to break new ground on a US $53-million facility, which they hope will solve one of the great mysteries of the sky: where do cosmic …
A judge has frozen the Argentine assets worth us $60 million of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group and a German firm after an oil spill in the River Plate, a local official said. Juan Sibetti, mayor of Magdalena, 110 km southeast of Buenos Aires, told news agencies the assets …
IN A major discovery, paleontologists have found a vast dinosaur nesting site in Argentina. Thousands of fossil eggs were found at the site. Inside the egg fragments, the scientists found the first embryo remains from a major class of large dinosaurs, and first definite fossils of embryo skin from any …
THE ninth meeting of the subsidiary bodies to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) held in Bonn concluded its meet without resolving key issues plaguing climate negotiations. The sessions were called to discuss details of how to implement the Kyoto Protocol, signed by 150 countries in December, …
General Juan Domix Peron's idea of introducing beavers in Tierra del Fuego, the snowy archipelago on the tip of South America, half a century ago seems to have gone seriously awry. In 1946, someone in the late president's navy came up with the idea of colonising Tierra del Fuego with …
catalytic converter plant: UK-based Johnson Mathey has recently entered into an agreement with Calcutta's Arora Group for setting up a catalytic converter plant in Delhi. The company would investUS $1.5 million for the project. The new facility is expected to be operational by third quarter of 1998. The Delhi plant …
