Special grant made in Brazil to fight deforestation

November 2016

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Brazil

Special grant made in Brazil to fight deforestation

Brazil’s Development Bank (BNDES) this month agreed to give Ibama, the cash-strapped enforcement arm of the Environment Ministry, R$56.3 million (US$16.6 million) to combat rising ......

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Elevated level of herbicide in honey stirs debate in Uruguay

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Special grant made in Brazil to fight deforestation

Brazil

Brazil’s Development Bank (BNDES) this month agreed to give Ibama, the cash-strapped enforcement arm of the Environment Ministry, R$56.3 million (US$16.6 million) to combat rising deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, only the second time it has ever done so. The grant will come from Brazil’s BNDES-managed Amazon Fund, which has collected US$1 billion in donations, mainly from Norway and Germany, and distributed $600 million of that since it was created by presidential decree in 2008. The donations have mainly been for public and private forest conservation, reforesting of degraded areas and promotion of sustainable development. Norway and Germany have pledged to make further Amazon Fund contributions of US$600 million and 100 million Euros (US$113 million), respectively, by 2020... [Log in to read more]

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November 2016

Region

Climate resolve seems strong despite U.S. election

Latin American environmental advocates are reacting with a mixture of guarded optimism and anxiety to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United ......

Brazil

Drones tested to aid Amazon river-dolphin counts

Amazon researchers and the conservation group WWF’s Brazilian office are field-testing drones as a tool for gauging the size of threatened Amazon river-dolphin populations. In an ......

Nicaragua

Miskito say settlers invade their Nicaraguan land

Tensions over natural resources in Nicaragua’s northeast have sparked violent skirmishes that have resulted in the deaths of at least 30 indigenous Miskito people in ......

Costa Rica

Talk in Costa Rica turns to eliminating fossil fuels

In 1948, Costa Rican President José Figueres abolished the country’s military—and marked the occasion by throwing a sledgehammer against the wall of the country’s military ......

Brazil

Special grant made in Brazil to fight deforestation

Brazil’s Development Bank (BNDES) this month agreed to give Ibama, the cash-strapped enforcement arm of the Environment Ministry, R$56.3 million (US$16.6 million) to combat rising ......

Around the Region

Elevated level of herbicide in honey stirs debate in Uruguay

Uruguayan honey exports have been facing headwinds in the United States and Europe since five shipping containers of the country’s honey were rejected in Germany ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Expropriation-price fight stalls Chaco park

Two years ago, environmentalists were celebrating a major win in northern Argentina’s El Impenetrable, the dry forest so named by explorers for its aridity, its ......

Q&A

Peru’s Pulgar-Vidal believes Paris Agreement is “Trump proof”

Two years ago, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal chaired the UN climate meeting in Lima that laid the groundwork for last year’s successful Paris summit, in which 197 ......