Climate investment in Latin America
This report, the first in a series of three, focuses on the policy landscape needed to enable a transition to net zero emissions, identifying key policies at a sectoral and national level to support investments
Peru
-
People s verdict ignored
Down with mining. This is the verdict that has been given by the residents of Tambogrande, a northern farming district in Peru. The people rejected a Canadian company's plans to develop a rich
-
PERU
An unprecedent mining boom is on the cards in Peru as foreign investors make a beeline to grab the opportunities. Foreign investment had come to a standstill since 1970 because of
-
Who's eating the fish?
PERUVIANS catch 11.6 million metric tonnes (MT) of fish annually but consume only 3 kg - 16 per cent of the amount recommended by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) - per head. Measures
-
Peru
The Peruvian government has decided to allow the residents of Tambo grande town to take the final decision about allowing a Canadian company to mine in their area. Manhattan Minerals Corporation, the
-
Tall claims
FELIX murillo, chief of the Peruvian National Statistical Institute, has claimed a reduction of 8 per cent in poverty, as revealed by official surveys of standards of living between 1991 and 1994.
-
Peru
A pristine rainforest in Peru has been recently declared a national park. The Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul, covering an area of 13,532 square kilometres, comprises one of the last remaining areas
-
Height of inequality
Standard of living determines a child s height
-
The Bill of contentions
The biodiversity bill has the potential of challenging the much hated formal intellectual property rights system of the TRIPs
-
Future Food: Peru - Old or New?
Behind an unmarked door in a Lima suburb, Javier Wong is planning a revolution in more than just stir-fry cooking. In fact the very future of food - and farming - is being re-imagined here in a city where