El cambio climático es una realidad que afectará de manera muy importante a América Latina y el Caribe en las próximas décadas, según han afirmado recientemente científicos del Panel Intergubernamental de Cambio Climático de la ONU. En este post queremos presentarte las cinco principales publicaciones en español sobre cambio climático del BID:
Sustainability is, thankfully, becoming a widespread concept in many industries. In the industrial design field, there are programs that allow you to swap out a material or production technique and factor their different environmental impacts.
Small developing island states (SDIS) are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. For this reason, some island states of the Caribbean region such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados can serve as laboratories where different adaptation measures to meet the challenges of climate change can be tested, assessing their cost-effectiveness.
*Por Nazaret Castro En el mundo se consumen de media 23 kilos de azúcar por persona y año.
With Colombia leading the way on climate change adaptation in agriculture, can other countries in Latin America follow?
Investing in the future is always a challenging decision, for example planning for retirement will often seem to be less urgent when we have pressing daily financial issues that have to be addressed now (unless you are near to retirement age of course). Not tomorrow, not in 10 years, but today.La mayoría de nosotros en América Latina no hemos practicado deportes de invierno, con la excepción tal vez de aquellos que viven en Chile o Argentina. Yo, por ejemplo, solo he esquiado una vez. Sin embargo, a la gran mayoría de nosotros nos gusta ver deportes de invierno por televisión o en la web y seguimos con interés las olimpiadas de invierno que se están celebrando en Sochi, Rusia.
Climate change is something that will impact all of us in some way or another. Moreover, this environmental problem is cumulative by nature, which means that even if we cut all emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) today, we will still continue to feel its negative effects for a long time. Since the industrial revolution, human activities have led to the accumulation of large quantities of these gases in both the atmosphere and the oceans.
