Peru needs at least a year to formulate its strategy for conserving forests in the fight against climate change, but a major highway project is set to slice into the heart of the country’s share of the Amazon today. Private companies and environmental groups have responded with an accounting scheme designed to get carbon money flowing to protection long before a national scheme is in place.
Quatro anos após início da febre do pau-de-balsa, comunidades indígenas e produtores avaliam impactos de atividade que se espalhou por Equador, Peru e Colômbia.
Four years on, producers reflect on the rush to cut and export balsa, a light wood used in wind turbine blades, which swept Ecuador and spread into Peru and Colombia. Featuring Forest Trends data.
We aren’t living in our grandparents’ climate. Between 2020 and 2022, total economic losses from droughts in those few years equaled almost two-thirds of total losses from the previous 20 years.[1] We can’t escape the headlines that we’ve broken another record for the hottest month in history. More and more intense floods are disrupting basic water […]
May 18th – 25th, 2024 | Bali, Indonesia As the world’s largest event on water, the World Water Forum provides a unique platform where the water community and key decision makers can collaborate and make long-term progress on global water challenges. The Forum brings together participants from all levels and areas, including politics, multilateral institutions, […]
The droughts, floods, fires, and landslides of recent years are tangible evidence of Peru’s vulnerability to water and climate risks. Natural infrastructure—such as forests, wetlands, grasslands, and shrublands—along with traditional practices to conserve water and soils, help reduce these risks. It also provides important co-benefits, like climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Over the last […]