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COPYRIGHT © - Alan Zeer, Blue Whale - Balleine Bleue (CC BY 2.0 )- FLICKR This article was originally posted on Latin America Goes Global website.
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Let’s imagine you are a decision maker in Central America and you need to protect your citizens from ever more frequent extreme weather events fueled by climate change. You face two options:
- Project A is a dike that costs $90 million to build, prevents on average $15 million of losses per year.
- Project B is also a dike, a little more expensive, it costs $100 million to build.
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The Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) is the only international, interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the art and science of impact assessment. The IAIA17 Conference, hosted this year in Montréal, Canada, gives us an opportunity to share information, best practices, success stories, innovations, and lessons learned with delegates from all over the world.
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Consultations are institutional mechanisms embedded in many Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) safeguards which consider the views of the stakeholders involved in its operations. They also represent an opportunity to build consensus on goals, and promote the engagement of beneficiaries to help them achieve environmental and social sustainability. The advantages of carrying out public consultations are usually clear. Nevertheless, their implementation in complex socioeconomic and cultural contexts can pose major challenges.
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Beep beep beep. I look at my watch and its altitude alarm has been triggered. This indicator tells me that we have reached 5,600 meters (18,370 feet) above sea level. We are only 190 meters more to the summit. A recent adventure brought me close to climate change. Too close for comfort, in fact.
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The world population is expected to increase to almost 10 billion people in 2050, and securing the supply of wood and timber from sustainable sources without competing for agricultural land and food production has already become a challenge in many parts of the world. In recent decades’ export-oriented industrial agriculture has become the main driver of South American land use patterns, increasing the pressure for more efficient and intensive production systems.
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Native birds and butterflies were once abundant in Haiti. The time has come to bring these species back to new life, and showcase Haiti’s rich biodiversity.
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“They thought that the bullet would silence us. But they failed… weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.” – Malala Yousafzai, speaking at the UN on her 16th birthday
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I was attending a symposium in the Bahamas when I heard the following in one of the panels: “We need to teach the silos to dance together.” Clearly, the phrase hadn’t come out of the blue. And it immediately struck a chord with me. The meeting was focused on how the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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When the United Nations designated 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (#IY2017) I started to think about all the opportunities out there to celebrate, educate and mobilize efforts leading to more sustainable tourism! After all, having worked with tourism development programs in several countries in Latin America, I knew for a fact how difficult it is to characterize and achieve sustainable tourism. In fact, even the definition of tourism itself is difficult!