En 2015, la capital peruana de Lima hizo un compromiso financiero significativo para restaurar la infraestructura natural de la región para ayudar a manejar sus muchos problemas de agua. Comprometerse es una cosa, sin embargo, el despliegue del financiamiento y la implementación de proyectos basados en la naturaleza es otra. Para ayudarles a averiguar cómo […]
In 2015, the Peruvian capital of Lima made a significant financial commitment to restore the region’s natural infrastructure to help manage its many water woes. Committing is one thing, however, deploying the finance and implementing nature based projects is quite another. To help them figure out how this should work, Lima’s water utility continues to enlist help and is creating a first-of-its-kind master plan for green infrastructure.
President Donald Trump and many Congressional Republicans say they’ll create jobs by rolling back environmental regulation, but their current trajectory could have the opposite effect: killing more than 220,000 jobs while eradicating endangered species, poisoning water, and accelerating climate change. There is, however, a proven way to reduce regulations without hurting jobs or the environment.
Cities and communities all over the world are facing severe water crises. Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing its worst drought in decades; and while California is finally seeing its parched reservoirs being refilled, the intensity and fierceness of the storms bringing this relief also harbor new dangers, triggering mudslides, flooding, blizzards, and avalanches – thereby putting […]
Los Sioux de Norteamérica atrajeron la atención del mundo este año defendiendo su agua potable en Standing Rock, Dakota del Norte; pero los pueblos indígenas han estado defendiendo a la Madre Tierra durante siglos, y los sioux no fueron los únicos en obtener victorias en 2016. En Dakota del Norte, son “Protectores del Agua”, pero […]
North America’s Sioux People caught the attention of the world this year by defending their drinking water at Standing Rock, North Dakota; but indigenous people have been defending Mother Earth for centuries, and the Sioux weren’t the only ones to make gains in 2016.
As drought, flooding and pollution made headlines year-round in 2016, some experts and organization pushed for a return to the basics, solutions that mimicked nature or protected water at its source, while also developing innovative new finance models to fund the mounting costs water management requires.
15 December 2016 | Washington, D.C. | It’s been a banner year for green infrastructure, from the roll-out of the Paris climate deal to Peru’s groundbreaking new water security strategy to California’s recent legislation recognizing nature as a critical part of its water infrastructure. In 2015, governments, water utilities, companies, and communities spent nearly $25 billion on payments for green […]
In China, Peru, the United States and elsewhere, nature-based interventions to manage water supplies is on the rise, and governments, companies and water providers are establishing some innovative ways to finance it. Ecosystem Marketplace’s latest State of Watershed Investment report tracks global payments for green infrastructure for water, and report authors will present key findings during a December 15th launch webinar.
On November 19, the 22nd Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 22) ended in Marrakesh. It was at COP 21, just last December, in Paris that 195 countries came together to adopt the historic agreement to mobilize global action against climate change. Many called it the most […]