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Cycling growing in popularity in brazilian megacity São Paulo:

Cycling growing in popularity in brazilian megacity São Paulo:

by ostyx | Jun 4, 2018 | Blog, Latin America, News

Bike To Work Day attracts public and companies as awareness of cycling benefits grows It’s no coincidence São Paulo was the city in which Zoom, described as “Uber for helicopters”, made its worldwide debut late last year. The biggest city in South America (population:...

Food insecurity to intensify for countries hardest hit by climate change

by ostyx | Sep 5, 2014 | Africa & Middle East, Food, Impacts, Jobs/Economy, Latin America, News, Oceans, Posts, Poverty

As climate change impacts compound across the globe, recent reports reveal that food insecurity will be one of the leading threats to the world’s most vulnerable populations. Agriculture industries in Africa will continue to struggle with failing crops as smallholder...

Chile to enact Latin America’s second ever carbon tax

by ostyx | Sep 2, 2014 | Features, Governments, Latin America, News, Pollution/Health, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

Chile is set to become the second country in Latin America to put a price on polluting, as the government gets ready to vote on its first carbon taxation scheme. The carbon tax goes before the country’s House of Representatives this week as part of a broader package...

BASIC group urges developed countries to ‘walk the talk’ on climate

by ostyx | Aug 14, 2014 | Africa & Middle East, Asia (incl. Maldives), Governments, Latin America, News, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) have reiterated their stand of the climate change negotiations, raising the pressure on developed nations to “walk the talk” when it comes to climate action. Meeting in New Delhi at the groups’ 18th ministerial level...

Japan and Mexico sign carbon trading deal

by ostyx | Aug 1, 2014 | Asia (incl. Maldives), Governments, Latin America, News, Pollution/Health, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

Japanese companies will now be able to earn carbon credits by investing in technology to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Mexico thanks to a new deal signed between the two countries. It is Japan’s 12th bilateral carbon agreement and will allow companies in Japan – the...

Peru weakens environmental safeguards months ahead of Lima climate conference

by ostyx | Jul 23, 2014 | Features, Governments, Home, Jobs/Economy, Latin America, News, Pollution/Health, Posts, Regions, Top, Topics, Types

Just months before an international conference brings delegates from 194 nations to Lima to discuss climate change, Peru has passed a new law that severely weakens environmental protections in the country. The new law strips Peru’s six-year-old Ministry of Environment...
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