India named least green country for electric cars
Coal-dependent power generation sees India bottom of a ranking for emissions from electric cars, with Paraguay top Paraguay is the greenest place on earth to make and drive an electric car, according
View ArticleWater as vital to national security as defense, U.N. says
Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as vital to national security as defense, the United Nations report said on...
View ArticleParaguay: Dengue epidemic affects 56,000 people, kills 41
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that 55,910 people have been detected with dengue disease, out of which 41 patients died due to the epidemic. Nearly 821 people remain hospitalised and 49 of them
View ArticleParaguay Water Projects May Cost $2.4 Billion, BNamericas Says
Paraguay is considering $2.4 billion of potable water and sanitation works over the next five years, BNamericas reported, citing the landlocked South American nation’s public works and communications...
View ArticleIndigenous communities and how ESG issues are impacting them around the world
Irresponsible business practices can have a disproportionate impact on indigenous communities, many of which continue to suffer from political and economic marginalization. This report highlights some
View ArticleParaguay’s Supreme Court issues ‘historic’ land ruling
Cattle-ranchers’ legal action versus expropriation of 1000s of hectares in favour of the indigenous Enxet people is rejected Imagine being forced to leave your home to make way for cattle-ranching and
View ArticleCropland/pastureland dynamics and the slowdown of deforestation in Latin America
Latin America has the planet's largest land reserves for agriculture and had the most rapid agricultural expansion during the twenty-first century. A large portion of the expansion replaced forests, as
View ArticleFloods Affect Nearly 30,000 People in Paraguay’s Capital
ASUNCION – Nearly 6,000 families, or about 30,000 people, have been affected by the flooding in Asuncion, Paraguayan emergency management officials said Sunday. The floods were caused by a rise in the
View ArticleBrazil's Belo Monte dam puts livelihood of 2,000 families at risk,...
Federal prosecutors say Norte Energia, the consortium building the $11bn dam, has violated agreed-to items that are endangering locals’ means of survival Construction of a massive hydroelectric dam
View ArticleTree loss slows, but covers area twice size of Portugal in 2014: study
The rate at which trees were cut down slowed globally for a third year in a row in 2014, but tree loss still covered an area twice the size of Portugal, an environmental research group said. Losses
View ArticleOver 100,000 flee flooding in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
More than 100,000 people have had to evacuate from their homes in the bordering areas of Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina due to severe flooding in the wake of heavy summer rains brought on by El
View ArticleParaguay calls for complete evacuation of town of 7,000 people
The government of Paraguay called on Thursday for the total evacuation of the town of Alberdi, with 7,000 people, due to the risk of flooding after a wall holding back the Paraguay river is set to burst.
View ArticleParaguay could face threat from dengue, other fevers this year
Paraguay could face problems this year with dengue and other fevers transmitted by mosquitoes, which have proliferated due to rainy weather during the Southern Hemisphere summer, a health ministry...
View ArticleParaguayan Farmers Defend Native Seeds over GMOs
ASUNCION – About 100 farmers with peasant organizations on Tuesday left their family farms in Paraguay’s interior to attend a fair in downtown Asuncion, where they displayed their native seeds, the basis
View ArticleBrazil indigenous community faces imminent eviction over land dispute: Amnesty
An indigenous community in southwestern Brazil faces imminent eviction from its traditional territories, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, in a case exemplifying ongoing land conflicts in South...
View ArticleParaguay Detects First Zika-Linked Cases of Microcephaly
ASUNCION – The government of Paraguay said on Wednesday that health officials have registered the country’s first two instances of Zika-infected mothers’ giving birth to babies with abnormally small...
View ArticleDeforestation-free commodities represent a major investment opportunity: Report
It’s estimated that about 10 per cent of global emissions comes from deforestation — meaning we could make considerable progress toward halting climate change simply by keeping what remains of the world’s
View ArticleWHO global surveillance and monitoring system for substandard and falsified...
Approximately 10.5% of medicines in low and middle income countries including India are sub-standard and falsified, said WHO in this report.
View ArticleParaguay's First Digital Indigenous Map Aims to Reduce Land Conflicts
Indigenous groups in Paraguay, battling to protect their ancestral lands from expanding agriculture and cattle ranching, launched the first online map of their territory Tuesday. Paraguay's beef and
View ArticleInsuResilience 2018 report: working toward a climate-resilient future
In this first Annual Report, the InsuResilience Global Partnership for Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance highlights the initiatives that the different actors worked on towards the...
View Article
