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Por Marianela Jarroud Chile is home to 20 percent of the world’s active volcanoes, according to the Andean Geothermal Centre of Excellence. |
Por Emilio Godoy One of the numerous initiatives to promote fuel-efficient, low-carbon wood-fired cookstoves aims to be the second in the world financed with carbon credits. |
Por Thelma Mejía The Honduran government’s announcement of its plans to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has raised expectations as well as doubts, particularly due to the speed with which it aims to complete a process that has taken several years in other countries of the region. |
| MEXICO: Government of the Capital Wins Award for Urban Lighting Project The French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) has granted a special recognition award to the “Energy, Innovation and Performance in Urban Lighting” project being implemented by the leftist government of Mexico City. |
| BRAZIL: São Paulo Solar Plant Will Supply Electricity to Public Grid The University of São Paulo will construct a photovoltaic power plant, in association with a local electric company, which will be the third solar power plant and the second to supply electricity to the public grid in Brazil. |
| ARGENTINA : E-Waste Bill In Danger, Say Activists The Argentine government is blocking final approval of a bill on electronic waste that was passed four years ago by the country’s senate, according to the Argentine branch of Greenpeace. |
| HONDURAS: Microfinance to Promote Clean Energy The Microfinance Network of Honduras (Redmicroh) is promoting small-scale clean energy projects through its 27 member organizations willing to finance family farmers interested in entering this field. |
Por Humberto Márquez Nanotechnology could be a powerful tool to reduce the climate impacts of fossil fuels and enhance the efficiency of clean energies. |
| BRAZIL: Football World Cup Will Emit 11 Million Tons of CO2 The Brazil 2014 Football World Cup will emit more than 11 million tons of carbon dioxide, according to a study conducted by the consulting firm Personal CO2 Cero. |
Por Emilio Godoy Bicycle transportation is starting to make headway in the Mexican capital. |
| HONDURAS: Businesspeople Learn About Sustainable Production Some 300 businesspeople from northern Honduras have received training on clean technologies in the energy, agriculture and water management sectors. |
| MEXICO: Consultations on New Motor Vehicle Efficiency Standards Completed New standards for motor vehicle efficiency will enter into effect in Mexico in 2013. The public consultations on the proposed new rules, which began in July, ended on Sep. 9. |
Por Inés Acosta Uruguay is undergoing a boom in investment in wind energy development. |
| CUBA: Promoting Wind Energy Cuba is striving to develop wind power and contribute to its expansion in the rest of the Caribbean, said energy specialist Conrado Moreno, organizer of a world conference on this energy source to be held for the first time ever in Latin America. |
| CHILE: Pascua Lama Announcement Criticized Chilean environmentalists have criticized an announcement by the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold that it will postpone the execution of the Pascua Lima binational mining project by one year and increase initial investment by three billion dollars. |
| VENEZUELA: Women Entrepreneurs Learn to Recycle Some 200 women in eastern Caracas will benefit from a program that will provide them with training in recycling and the manufacture and sale of clothing, bags, ornaments, cards and various crafts. |
| HONDURAS: First Solid Waste Plant Opening Soon The municipality of Marcovia, in southern Honduras, will be the first in the country with a plant for treating and recycling solid wastes, which will enter into operation in September. The recycled material will be sold to companies in El Salvador and Guatemala. |
Por Marianela Jarroud interviews KATHY GERWIG and VERÓNICA ODRIOZOLA of Health Care Without Harm In the United States, hospitals are the third largest user of energy in the commercial buildings sector. |
Por Fabiana Frayssinet Plastics made from sugarcane ethanol may be more environmentally friendly than their fossil fuel counterparts because of their lower carbon footprint, but they are no more biodegradable than traditional plastics. |
| CHILE: FAO Promotes Bioenergy The Latin America regional office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recommended that Chile incorporate bioenergy into its energy mix. |
Por Marcela Valente Unconventional gas and oil exploitation might be sensible in the short or medium term in Argentina. But in the long run, it will have to increase the use of other energy sources and reduce the weight of hydrocarbons, says specialist Mariana Matranga. |
Por Emilio Godoy The Mexican municipality chosen by the G20 as a venue to talk about sustainability and climate change suffers from erosion, coastal pollution, fishing disputes, the impacts of tourism mega projects and the threat of destructive new mining operations. |
Por Diana Cariboni Inclusive green growth is the pathway to sustainable development in the medium term, says expert Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vásquez in this interview. |
Por Mario Osava Run-of-the-river hydroelectric dams like Belo Monte will increase Brazil’s energy insecurity, say executives in the electric power sector. |
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