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Cancun and the Riviera Maya are tourist destinations that grew very quickly and for this reason, a large number of new employment and business opportunities were created. But for some…
Entering 2023, it was possible to shorten the digital gap by bringing connectivity to six communities in the territory of the Paraguayan Chaco, thanks to the work of Grupo Sunu,…
The Chilean startup HeyAndes, with the support of Corfo, the Municipality of Panguipulli, the Huilo Huilo Biological Reserve, TelSur and the University of Chile, launched the Marketplace that aims to…
In the community of Timboy Tiguasu, an hour and a half from Yacuiba, in the Bolivian Chaco, during 2020, with the impacts of the pandemic and climate change, the population…
The Community Compost Bins program, implemented by the government of Bahía Blanca (Buenos Aires, Argentina) has the objective of increasing the environmental awareness of the population and, in this way,…
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75% of the entrepreneurs in the City of Buenos Aires are between 25 and 45 years old, 95% reached the university or postgraduate level and 91% have previous work experience…
After 34 years of the death of Chico Mendes, an international reference in the socio-environmental fight in defense of the protection of the Amazon and its peoples, his legacy continues…
Since 2018, Doctors Without Borders has organized a series of eye camps in Somalia with the aim of providing treatment and surgery for various eye conditions. Eye camps are held…
For more than 25 years, Salud Sin Daño has worked together with the health sector to address environmental problems. Given the current scenario of the serious climate crisis that the…
Warmi, a hundred-year-old spinning mill in Jujuy, Argentina, made a commitment to its community and a challenge to itself: make visible the traceability of the production process of its exclusive…
The climatic disaster that is taking place in the current 2022/23 agricultural campaign will cause a decrease in foreign currency income that will affect both productive communities and the Argentine…
Unplastify and Potenciar launched the report “Unplastifying Actors in Latin America and the Caribbean”. The objective of this report is to generate a map of actors (organizations, initiatives and/or solutions)…
In 2022, around 30 countries suffered outbreaks of cholera or similar diseases. But it’s not just one big outbreak. In most countries, the current wave of cholera is caused by…
Human-caused climate change made the record heat wave in northern Argentina and Paraguay in early December about 60 times more likely, according to a rapid attribution analysis by an international…
According to a study by the environmental charity EarthWatch Institute, most of the plastic that ends up in the oceans comes from rivers. As this graph from Statista shows, according…
The UN (United Nations) recognized forest restoration work in the Atlantic Forest as one of the most promising and relevant in the world, naming it the World Restoration Flagship of…
The increase in consumption and demand for food worldwide encourages the expansion and intensification of agriculture, which often leads to an increase in deforestation and conversion of natural environments. WWF’s…
Child marriage and early unions are a complex phenomenon related to gender inequalities, poverty, school dropout, violence and adolescent pregnancy. Child marriage puts girls’ lives and health at risk, as…
The La Niña weather phenomenon, which has a cooling effect, prevented 2022 from being the warmest year on record. The global average temperature in 2022 was around 1.15 degrees Celsius…
Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate and the extractive, wasteful and polluting linear economy is increasingly recognized as one of the main underlying causes of this crisis. Currently,…
A person eats, drinks and breathes between 78,000 and 211,000 microplastic particles (plastic particles that measure less than five millimeters) per year. The “Human Consumption of Microplastics” research, published in…
Regenerative food businesses (NAR) are associated with the generation of food products and processes in which the conservation, restoration and strengthening of ecosystems and their self-regulation capacity are central to…
“Sembradoras por la ReactivAcción” is a labor inclusion program in which 80% of the beneficiaries are women in vulnerable conditions. It is led by the Ministry of the Environment, the…
According to the WMO we will break the threshold of 1.5º C to 1.8ºC in the next 5 years. Then intercontinental structural droughts may occur. As a consequence, between 2…