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Climate change poses significant risks to development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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RiskMonitor – La plataforma del BID en gestión del riesgo de desastres. Si tienes planeado viajar a El Caribe quizás podría inquietarte la posibilidad de que se forme un huracán o que pase uno durante tu viaje. Por otro lado, si vives en un país que tiene costa hacia el Océano Pacífico, que desde el punto de vista geológico es considerado una “zona sísmica”, es probable que te preocupe la posibilidad de que ocurra un terremoto y tsunamis que afecte tu vivienda.
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Este artículo fue publicado originalmente por Climate Home El pasado viernes, cuatro millones de personas salieron a las calles para exigir acciones climáticas. Greta Thunberg, la activista sueca, tenía razón: la gente defiende el clima en todos los continentes, incluso en la Antártida.
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Next Monday September 23, the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, is hosting the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 in New York to address the global climate emergency. Mr. Guterres is calling on all countries to come ready to announce the plans they will set next year to reduce their GHG emissions by 45% by 2030 and to net zero emissions by 2050.
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This article was originally published by El Nuevo Día. At a recent ceremony in Iceland, mourners laid a plaque atop a volcano commemorating the loss of the Okjökull glacier.
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By Amal-Lee Amin y Amy Lewis Imagine a bridge that has been built to withstand the effects of a hurricane. Crossing it is a constant flow of pedestrians, cyclists and electric vehicles charged by a power grid ran on 100% renewable energy.
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Artículo publicado originalmente en inglés en Caribbean DEVTrends+. A través de la ventana de un avión, es fácil ver por qué el mundo llama a este lugar Paraíso. Viajo a menudo por trabajo y desde mi asiento en el cielo he llegado a conocer la hermosa topografía del Caribe: el verde exuberante de Guyana, las costas turquesas de Barbados, el rango norte de Trinidad. Cada paisaje es único; todos diferentes miembros de la misma familia.
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Can you even have sustainability and hydropower in the same sentence? It’s a question that for years has challenged development practitioners (and bolstered critics) of this renewable source of energy. But the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is taking steps to help answer this question. Hydropower can be massive in scale. In 2018, electricity generation from hydropower reached an estimated 4,200-terawatt hours (TWh), setting the highest ever contribution from a renewable energy source (International Hydropower Association, 2019).
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Climate change is not only an environmental challenge, but also a political, economic and social one. Projections indicate that, if the current emissions trajectory continues, the global average temperature of the planet will exceed by 3°C the average temperature observed at the beginning of the 19th century, generating an unprecedented impact on the history of humankind.
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This article was originally published by El País. The Governments of Latin America and the Caribbean have overcome many challenges in recent decades, but climate change could represent the greatest threat ever known in our region.