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Latin America and the Caribbean alone holds 40% of the world's biodiversity. This natural capital is not properly valued in national accounts and cannot compete with other investment priorities. During COP25 in Madrid, under the presidency of Chile, countries around the world discussed the various avenues for development, decarbonization plans and technological innovations that can limit the global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius.
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A new methodology, created by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), aims to assess disaster and climate change risks in the preparation, implementation, and operational phases of projects, to increase their resilience.  The IDB’s ‘Disaster and Climate Change Risk Assessment Methodology’ report, takes a multi
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Private sector uptake of nature-based solutions for climate resilient infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean has been limited to date, and their full potential is not being realized. These are the findings from a recent study which examines the barriers and enablers to private sector uptake of Nature-based Solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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By prioritising the recovery of natural capital and ancestral practices, communities in Guatemala are strengthening their resilience to climate change-induced droughts.The ‘Dry Corridor’ is an ecological region of Central America, which encompasses some of Guatemala, and is particularly vulnerable to increasingly irregular rainfall, suffering from both severe droughts and flooding.As a result, poverty and food insecurity have become major issues for families and communities living in the area.Over recent years, communities in the country’s dry corridor have established practic
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Imagine you are waiting for the bus and instead of the arrival of an old and noisy bus, a clean and silent electric bus arrives that also has WIFI, USB ports and access for the disabled. This will be a reality in Bogotá with the award of 379 electric buses.These electric buses will start operating in September 2020 and will be the second largest electric fleet in Latin America, after Santiago de Chile.
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Between 2011 and 2015, Honduras suffered one of the most severe periods of drought, caused by the El Niño phenomenon, an event considered abnormal given that it did not usually occur for several consecutive years.In addition to the water shortage crisis, the drought caused the appearance of a severe plague of pine weevil (Dendroctonus frontalis), a beetle that naturally develops permanently in pine forests, but which can increase their populations by up to level considered pest when there are high temperatures and water stress in the trees.
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Global CO2 emissions peaked in 2019. Latin America can help reverse this trend by implementing efficiency standards to decarbonize the transport sector. A new report addresses policies that Latin America and the Caribbean can implement to improve the vehicle efficiency of their new light-duty car parks.Most countries in the world are currently meeting in Madrid for COP25, discussing how to increase their ambitions to limit the climate crisis, and prevent the global temperature from rising above 1.5 ° C.
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The school yard rang with laughter and shouts as blue and white uniform-clad school children rushed out of their classrooms to attend morning assembly. As the entire school of almost 300 children at Caye Caulker Roman Catholic School gathered, there was considerable excitement. That day, Headmistress Mrs. Beatrice Chan announced, the school was welcoming some very special guests with a big announcement. Caye Caulker is barefoot paradise. The island sits one mile west of the Belize Barrier Reef and 23 miles from Belize City on the mainland.