Posts Tagged ‘Medio Ambiente’
Stained with the Same Grease
Palm oil production creates two main problems: one environmental and one social.
Read MorePeru’s Two Faces
Peru has one face for the international community in the COP 20 and another that its citizens see. Analysis by Dejusticia from Lima.
Read MoreDid the Amazon’s lifesaver get punctured?
The Santos adminsitration’s good intentions in the Amazon have been undone by its own actions. As told by La Silla Vacía, in August 2012 ex-Minster of the Environment Frank Pearl, before leaving office, threw a lifesaver for the Amazon. Pearl released Resolution 1518 of 2012, which establishes that no one can drill any part of the Amazon classified as Forest Reserve (according to Law 2 of 1959) for mining activities, until the Ministry of the Environment zoned the territory. In other words, until it defined which areas of the Amazon territory classified as Forest Reserve– the large majority (see Map 1)– should be protected and which can house economic projects, among them mining.
Read MoreSchizophrenic Environmentalism
Seeing President Santos in one screen promising “historic” actions against climate change at the UN, en in another his Environmental Minister promising to dismantle environmental controls through the creation of “express” licenses, I remembered García Márquez’s speech about Colombian contradictions when he presented the Sabios Mission report.
Read MoreMemorable Moment for Medicine and Minining
Few economic sectors have as much power as mining and Big Pharma.
Read MoreA New Development Plan?
While the Government has revisited the mining development plan because it has not performed as well as it originally hoped, a new development plan seems to have come to the fore: “fracking” or unconventional gas extraction. We still have time to stop it.
Read MoreCrop spraying and the Precautionary Principle
A State Council decision issued on December 11, 2013, which is very important but that went unnoticed, leads one to conclude that we should suspend fumigations using glyphosate because it violates the precautionary principle.
Read MoreBlack Communities in the Islands of Rosario: Between Tourism Development and Environmental Regulation
The government could formulate a policy that reconciles the rights of the community, the protection of the environment, and the development of tuorism to resolve these tensions.
Read MoreThe Inspector General´s Ecological Bullying
Piedras, Tolima. In this remote rice region of the country, it is clear that the Inspector General’s crusade against the rights of the citizens is more ambitious and ubiquitous than what it appears from Bogotá.
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