Nature and Culture International is establishing Ecuador’s first water school, an institution created to train municipal water workers in the skills required to join and administer a water fund. The water fund model continues to experience success in managing Latin America’s stressed water resources and the school is meant to help scale up its use.
Water utilities and NGOs around the world are using market-based mechanisms to clean regional waterbodies and restore surrounding watersheds, but critics say the programs are unproven. Proponents counter: yes, they are, and the data exists to prove it!
Chefs de toda América Latina están aprovechando la cocina como un vehículo para la producción sostenible de alimentos y la protección de los bosques. Aquí, Will Tucker de Forest Trends explora cómo este pensamiento influyó en un chef que trabaja en la Ciudad de Panamá, llevándolo en un viaje que comenzó con un solo tweet […]
Chefs across Latin America are leveraging cuisine as a vehicle for sustainable food production and forest protection. Here, Forest Trends’ Will Tucker explores how this thinking influenced a chef working in Panama City, taking him on a journey that began with a single tweet and has since led to a program sourcing rainforest ingredients sustainably while empowering communities.
Este estudio de caso aborda la necesidad de una orientación práctica para evaluar el impacto social de los fondos de agua al documentar y reflexionar sobre un proceso de evaluación del impacto social dirigido por Aquafondo, el fondo del agua de Lima, Perú.
Brazil’s SOMAI Alerta Indígena platform helps indigenous territories plan for climate change, but so far it’s only been available in places with reliable internet. A new mobile app could spread the access and make it more responsive – but only if funding materializes. Thanks to Google, that may be about to happen.
An independent evaluation concludes that Europe’s action plan to clamp down on the trade of illegally sourced wood products is working, though the plan requires some adjusting to face new types of challenges. This news comes on the heels of Indonesia’s announcement that it will be the first nation to issue timber products licensed under that action plan.
Forest Trends, the Latin American Association of Water Regulators (ADERASA), and EcoDecision are pleased to announce a new training series on the practical application of green infrastructure for water utilities and regulators in Latin America. Water professionals and their allies working on green infrastructure projects and policies in Latin America are cordially invited to register for the […]
Cattle’s mobility makes it difficult to trace and helps explain why the Global Canopy Programme’s rating system, Forest 500, found that retailers are far more active in scrubbing deforestation out of their palm oil supply chains than cattle. Despite the increased complications, the GCP highlights ways in which companies can address deforestation in cattle supply chains.
With massive powers to store carbon, forests have a big role to play in mitigating climate change and fulfilling Paris Agreement commitments, which includes halting deforestation. Policy support to curb this tree loss is mounting and CDP says companies joining this sustainable and deforestation-free movement are putting themselves in an advantageous position.