Corporate Knights

AUGUST 14, 2023

The stakes of the matter are clearly spelled out in a 113-point document, dubbed the Belém Declaration for the Brazilian city in which it was signed by the countries that form the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO): Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 4, 2023

The number of fish species recorded in Madidi National Park and Natural Integrated Management Area (PNANMI), Bolivia has doubled to a staggering 333 species -- with as many as 35 species new to science -- according of a new study.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Carbon removal solutions provider Carbonfuture announced today a new offtake agreement with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal (BCR) credits, in collaboration with the Bolivia-based Exomad Green Concepción project. Read the full story at ESG Today.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a result, the world’s eyes are fixed on the protagonists of the lithium triangle: Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, whose high-altitude salt-flat brines are estimated to contain 52 million tonnes of lithium. Bolivia has the largest amount of untapped resources. Within the lithium triangle, Chile has the largest reserves, at 9.2-million

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Impakter

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

However, what can be learned from visiting the countries from which the leaf originates, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, is that the coca leaf’s true use is far from that of the addictive […] The post Coca Is Not Cocaine: The Truth Behind the Sacred South American Coca Leaf appeared first on Impakter.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Carbon removal solutions provider Carbonfuture announced today a new offtake agreement with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal (BCR) credits, in collaboration with the Bolivia-based Exomad Green Concepción project.

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Energy Central

APRIL 25, 2023

" In contrast, Bolivia's lithium sector "repeatedly stopped as a result of heavy governmental control." According to Benjamin Gedan, head of the Latin America program at The Wilson Center, "Argentina's lithium sector has grown through a decentralized, pro-market strategy."

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Bolivia experienced a 32% increase in primary forest loss between 2021 and 2022 – four times the rate of Brazil. Mighty Earth, a global environmental advocacy organization, called Cargill’s announcement “important but incomplete,” noting that it is one of the “top drivers of ecosystem destruction in Latin America.”

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ESG Today

MARCH 25, 2024

The agreement marks the latest in a series of carbon removal announcements by Microsoft, forming part of the company’s initiative to become carbon negative by 2030, and to remove all of its historical emissions by 2050, including another recent Latin America-based biochar deal with the Bolivia-based Exomad Green Concepción project.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 21, 2020

With its fourth fund, the firm is eying Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and other underserved markets in Latin America, The post DILA Capital looks to underserved Latin American markets with fourth fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 20, 2019

Jose Maria Romay, general manager of Corani (a subsidiary of Ende), has announced the company is seeking financing from Latin American development bank CAF and French development agency AFD for the 147-MW Banda Azul hydro project.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Kimberly-Clark’s facility in Santa Cruz, Bolivia has reduced its water usage by more than 86 percent since 2015. Water savings at this facility are enough to fill more than 86 Olympic-size swimming pools.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In Bolivia, a tax on hydrocarbons pays for a healthy meal program in schools. Paris is putting up €10 million to help farmers shift to organic production, while California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has rewilded its rice production.

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3BL Media

APRIL 10, 2024

We’re excited to embark on this work with WCS, with initial fund disbursement supporting programs in the Madidi Landscape in Bolivia and the Kulen Prum Tep Sanctuary in Cambodia with future sites under development.

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3BL Media

APRIL 5, 2022

Mexico and senior management posts at Transredes SA (Shell JV) in Bolivia. Prior to joining the Aditya Birla Group as Chief Sustainability Officer, he worked in India for the Vedanta Group and was the first CSO of an FTSE 100 Company. His earlier assignments include working as CSO with Cemex SA.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Nepal, Bhutan, Bolivia, Suriname, …). China is ranked 31 – very strong in Intellectual Capital, but low on Natural Capital and scoring below average in Resource Intensity/Efficiency. the UK ranks 7, France 8, Germany 16. Brazil is 46th, India 120, and Nigeria 126.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Leading scholars and experts on the Amazon, including Indigenous leaders, serve as course instructors: Carlos Nobre, SPA Co-Chair & Senior Researcher at the Advanced Studies Institute, University of São Paulo; Nadino Calapucha, Amazonian Kichwa Leader & President of theFundación de KAMBAK; Jhan-Carlo Espinoza, Research Director at the French (..)

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Timeline for Priority Countries Brazil: December 15, 2023 Panama: December 31, 2023 Guatemala: December 31, 2023 Jamaica: February 1, 2024 French Guyana: February 1, 2024 Bolivia: February 1, 2024 Peru: February 1, 2024 Ecuador: February 1, 2024 Applications from all other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: April 1, 2024.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

Lithium deposits are also located near some of the most sensitive ecosystems in the world – The Amur River, on the border of Russia and China, the Andes Mountains (Chile) and the Salt Flats in Bolivia. Lithium extraction in salt flats in Bolivia uses millions of litres of water.

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3BL Media

MARCH 2, 2022

The move boosted O-I’s operations and added five plants in Mexico and one in Bolivia, all now under Monica’s leadership. Monica was invaluable during the 2015 acquisition of Mexico’s Vitro SAB food and beverage business.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 23, 2020

We seek solutions in the nine countries of the Amazon basin: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Organizations that are not part of SDSN Amazonia and want to participate can submit their membership application online.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 1, 2015

The Network was launched during the International Conference on Sustainable Development, which was attended by over 150 participants from the Andean nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 20, 2022

As one of the world’s leading experts on economic development, global macroeconomics, and the fight against poverty, Prof.

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Sense and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In Bolivia in 2011, a government attempt to reduce government subsidies was met with such public backlash that the subsidy reform was scrapped within 5 days. These subsidies are often part of a populist policy package designed to attract low income voters.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 15, 2023

At the Pan-Amazonian level, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network in the Amazon (SDSN Amazônia) organized preparatory events with representatives from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

It identifies the Gran Chaco, the largest dry forest in South America, which extends from southern Bolivia into western Paraguay and northern Argentina, as “the next deforestation frontier”. A separate report from UK think tank Planet Tracker said the soy industry is to blame for deforestation causing US$2.7

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 15, 2023

The summit brought together the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) for the first time in 14 years with the aim of reaching an overall agreement on slate of overlapping issues, ranging from fighting deforestation to financing sustainable development.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

A case study from Rolando Hinojosa, chairman of the National Federation of Water & Sanitation Service Co-operatives highlighted that 160 drinking water and sanitation co-operatives in Bolivia are essentially insolvent. This is due to a government instruction to halve customer bills along with non-payment, the webinar learned.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

says Alanna Boyd, who studied political science and international development while volunteering with Oxfam and an intercultural development program in Bolivia. “In my 20s, my question was where can I have impact?”

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 15, 2015

The Andean SDSN will be the first regional effort aimed at building a strong regional network of universities, research centers, governments, businesses, and civil society to implement solutions initiatives for sustainable development in the Andean Region (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela).

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 11, 2020

The Award was open to solutions carried out and implemented by private, public, academic and third sector organizations in the eight countries and one province of the Amazon basin: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.

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EJOLT

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

5. Christian Dorninger and Nina Eisenmenger – South America’s biophysical involvement in international trade: the physical trade balances of Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil in the light of ecologically unequal exchange. 6. Leah Temper – Who gets the HANPP (Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production)?

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The day prior, French President Emmanuel Macron formally introduced the Pact at the UN, with the support of leaders from Bolivia, China, Egypt, Fiji, Gabon, India, Mali and Poland, among others.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

SDSN Youth welcomed SDSN Youth USA , Bolivia, and Afghanistan to its Networks Program; meanwhile, the Membership Program expanded to 672 members in 112 countries as of September. In mid-2021, Brighton Kaoma joined SDSN Youth as the new Global Director.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 24, 2020

The pace of deforestation in the Amazon, coupled with last year’s devastating forest fires, has pushed the world’s largest rainforest close to a tipping point, adding urgency to the motives that led the leaders of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname and Brazil to sign the Leticia Pact last September in the Colombian city of Leticia.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 2, 2022

On May 3, 2022, Observatorio Boliviano para la Industria Turística Sostenible (ORBITA, or the Bolivian Observatory for the Sustainable Tourism Industry) was launched with the aim of promoting tourism as an engine for sustainable development and achieving gender equity in Bolivia.

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B the Change

MARCH 23, 2023

based B Corp that works with farmers in Colombia, Kenya, Mexico, and Bolivia. B Corps Go Beyond By Building Strong Supply Chains for Social and Environmental Impact The first day of Expo West 2023 included a Climate Day panel with Heather Terry, CEO of GoodSAM Foods , a U.S.-based

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