Promotion of Mexican rural enterprises through international tourism
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…
Isolated communities of the Paraguayan Chaco begin 2023 with connectivity
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,…
Municipal Marketplace connects, digitizes and reactivates tourist services
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…
Nature-based solutions from the Bolivian Chaco
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…
Community compost bins: while organic waste feeds the soil, the city reduces its pollution
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,…
The triple impact entrepreneurial ecosystem of the City of Buenos Aires
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…
How the legacy of Chico Mendes promotes youth climate action
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…
Somalia: ophthalmological fields that help restore sight
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…
Hospitals that reduce their environmental footprint online
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…
A century-old spinning mill promotes sustainable textile production with a social impact
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…
Drought in Argentina impacts producers and communities
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…
The map of actors that seeks to deplasticize Latin America and the Caribbean
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)…
Why are there so many cholera outbreaks in the world?
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…
Climate change made Argentina’s recent heat wave about 60 times more likely
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…
Bottles are the most frequent plastic items in Europe’s rivers
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…
Atlantic Forest Named UN Global Restoration Flagship Initiative
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 European Union will ban imports of products that come from deforestation
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…
One in four girls and adolescents is married or in a union in Latin America
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…
2022 is confirmed as one of the warmest years
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…
Regenerating nature requires an economic transformation
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,…
The largest amount of microplastics enters the body through bottled water
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…
A consortium of organizations is presented that seeks to promote regenerative food businesses
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…
During 2022, ‘Sembradoras por la ReactivAcción’ has generated more than 1,000 green jobs in Bogotá
“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…
To stop global warming, the private sector must make the effort, we cannot afford to break the 1.5ºC threshold
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…