Matching customers’ electricity demand with clean energy sources per hour 99% of the time can be done at a cost similar to matching renewable energy supply with demand per year, according to an analysis published Tuesday by Peninsula Clean Energy. The agency, which sells electricity to San Francisco, aims to deliver fully renewable energy 99% […]
Tag: environment
The year 2023 will be “the hottest” and “the climate commitment will increase”
The year 2023 will be “without a doubt” the hottest on record, which “it will increase the commitment in adaptation and mitigation issues by many countries” with a view to the next Conference of the Parties (COP28) to be held in dubai (United Arab Emirates), predicted in an interview with EFE the director of the […]
MWC: environmental awareness makes room at the Mobile World Congress
The climate emergency is pressing and the technology sector has its share of responsibility, both for its ability to contribute to mitigating it and for its polluting emissions, and for this reason the ecological transition has made a name for itself at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Spain). Together with virtual reality, 5G or […]
The Peruvian Amazon in the light: a challenge that they ask not to be postponed
Legal strengthening, productive sustainability and social inclusion with articulation of the public and private sectors. Those were the central axes during the closing day of the III Amazon Business Congress: “The urgent challenge of sustainable and inclusive development of the Peruvian Amazon”, which welcomed personalities from politics, industry and social activism for the development of […]
For better governance of natural resources
The Amazon is a very attractive space for its natural riches and for the resources it offers for their use in certain economic sectors, which turn out to be the focus for extractive industries and for large infrastructure projects, power generation or road clearance. . However, the socio-environmental impacts of these projects affect the ecosystems […]
How feeding a mushroom to fish helps save trees
A Finnish company is trying to break the fishing industry’s dependence on fish feed made from soybeans, in addition to the associated deforestation. The average person eats nearly twice as much seafood as they did half a century ago, so the fish on our plates is more likely to come from a farm than anywhere […]
Roads, deforestation and public health
By: Ciro Salazar Valdivia Law, Environment and Natural Resources In the Amazon, the expansion of road infrastructure is one of the main factors that favor deforestation and change in land use (CUS), which occur when expanding the agricultural frontier or carrying out extractive activities. The evidence on this relationship is abundant, for example, the IDB […]
Castillo’s first 100 days and COP 26 on climate change
By: César Gamboa Balbín, Executive Director of Law, Environment and Natural Resources – DAR There are no course changes. That could define Castillo’s government. It is very difficult to judge him by the polarization with the Congress of the Republic, for which the Government is also responsible, but the idea of a sustainable reactivation is […]
The decline of marine ecosystems alters their climate regulatory function
The decline of marine ecosystems is altering the ocean as a regulator of climate and it is essential to advance in a new legal framework focused on the conservation of biodiversity in the International Waters Treaty, which is expected to end “successfully in March 2022 ″. It has been explained by the experts on ocean […]
Responsibilities of the IDB and the bioeconomy in the Amazon
By: Denisse Linares – DAR The Amazon is one of the most important biomes for the survival of humanity. However, it is suffering an unprecedented climate crisis, due to the high rates of deforestation, which involves territorial disputes that have put the lives of environmental and indigenous defenders at risk. Faced with this, it is […]