Sostenibilidad

¿Qué pasó después? (Parte 2)

Food loss and waste negatively impact the environment. Much food is lost or wasted throughout the food supply chain, from agricultural production until final household consumption. In developing countries the greatest food loss takes place during the initial phases of the food supply chain, mainly due to technical, storage, refrigeration and transportation management problems. However, there's also a large amount of food either wasted during consumption or thrown away, even when still edible. This is unacceptable.

¿Qué pasó después?

When we think of health and education, we envision the well being of human beings, as these are essential elements for all of us to live a full life and reach our potential, both as individuals and as members of society. At the Inter-American Development Bank, projects in these sectors are usually classified as “low safeguard risk,” since their environmental impacts are often minor.

• Cuántas formas tiene la naturaleza para cautivarnos, pensé.

Lo cierto es que no lo sabemos con exactitud. Sin embargo, sí sabemos cuánto estamos invirtiendo los seis bancos multilaterales de desarrollo (BMD) más grandes del mundo. Esta semana se lanzó el quinto Informe Conjunto sobre Finanzas Climáticas de los Bancos Multilaterales de Desarrollo, 2015.

During my work trips to Latin America and the Caribbean as an Environmental Specialist for the Bank, I discuss the importance of safeguards and sustainability with our clients and stakeholders. In that context I try to encourage innovative solutions to protect the environment, solutions that go beyond the minimum requirements.

In a previous post on understanding natural capital accounting, we presented the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Central Framework as an important advance in support of evidence-based policy and analysis.

Rural villages such as the ones located in the Andean mountains of southern Peru present an interesting dilemma. For an external observer, there is usually little doubt that people from these villages should be considered as indigenous: they are the descendants of pre-colonial societies, speak an ancestral native language (Quechua), and have worldviews, social norms, economic systems, and cultural practices that are different from the ones of the rest of the country’s population.