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According to a recent study funded by the World Bank and published in Science magazine, tropical land use change was responsible for 7 to 14 percent of gross human-induced carbon emissions between 2000 and 2005. Forests are valuable storage places for large amounts of carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming when it enters the earth’s …
Read More »Communities need more than money to stop clearing their forests, new research shows.
Léelo en español AQUÍ By Valerie Giesen* According to a recent study funded by the World Bank and published in Science magazine, tropical land use change was responsible for 7 to 14 percent of gross human-induced carbon emissions between 2000 and 2005. Forests are valuable storage places for large amounts of carbon dioxide, which contributes to …
Read More »Bolivia Climate Change Monthly: August 2013
Welcome to the August 2013 edition of Bolivia Climate Change Monthly where you will find the latest research, policy, donor activity, and news related to climate change in Bolivia*. Soil carbon stocks vary predictably with altitude in tropical forests: Implications for soil carbon storage by Dieleman W. I. J., Venter M., Ramachandra …
Read More »Infographic: How to Live Well in Bolivia
Vivir Bien – living well – is a concept that has been prominent in Bolivian politics over the last few years. It sets out the ideological position of living well in harmony with nature and rejects a mass consumption and fossil fuel based economy. Although Vivir Bien has even been …
Read More »Infographic: How to Live Well in Bolivia
Léelo en español AQUÍ Vivir Bien – living well – is a concept that has been prominent in Bolivian politics over the last few years. It sets out the ideological position of living well in harmony with nature and rejects a mass consumption and fossil fuel based economy. Although Vivir Bien …
Read More »New simulation tool tackles deforestation and poverty in Bolivia
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release. London/ La Paz, September 01, 2013 – A new simulation tool designed to help local Bolivian communities reduce deforestation and tackle poverty has been developed by academics and conservationists around the world. A new simulation tool designed to help local Bolivian communities reduce deforestation and …
Read More »New simulation tool tackles deforestation and poverty in Bolivia
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release. London/ La Paz, September 01, 2013 – A new simulation tool designed to help local Bolivian communities reduce deforestation and tackle poverty has been developed by academics and conservationists around the world. The tool, called SimPachamama (‘Mother Earth simulation’ in local language), is based on …
Read More »A Face of Internal Displacement in Colombia
By Paula Fynboh There’s a cemetery near Montgomery, Minnesota (USA) where my parents will be buried. It’s the same cemetery where my grandparents were buried. And it is the same place where my great-grandparents found their final resting place. What does this have to do with displacement? It offers me …
Read More »First in Queue: How improving water access for the poor can help meet other Millennium Development Goals.
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set to reduce by half the number of people without access to clean water by 2015 as target ten of goal number seven: ensure environmental sustainability. And—although this fact remains controversial*—this target was met three years early in March 2012. However, this is not a cause …
Read More »Last Call for Papers for Development Economics Conference
There is less than a week to go until the submission deadline for papers for the Fifth Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE) conference to be held on November 14 and 15, 2013 in Santa Cruz. A travel stipend of 700 USD will be offered to some of the successful applicants. Interested parties …
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