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Peru glaciers shrink 40% in 44 years: government
2014-10-16 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Peru's glaciers have shrunk by more than 40 percent since 1970 because of climate change, giving birth to nearly 1,000 new lagoons, national water authority ANA said Thursday. Peru, which is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 20, in December, used satellite images to carry out the glacier inventory ahead of the high-level meeting. The worst-affected glacier was 5,200-meter-high (17,000-foot) tourist gem Pastoruri in the Andes mountains, which lost 52 percent of its...
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Peru: World cant allow COP20 meet in Lima to end in failure
2014-10-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Herald: The international community cannot allow the 20th session of the U.N. Conference of the Parties on Climate Change scheduled for December in Lima to end in failure, the advisor to the Peruvian government for that summit told Efe. No, (the world) cant allow it. If theres failure at the COP20 in Peru, we wont reach an agreement at the COP21 in Paris, Jorge Gastelumendi told Efe. He made those remarks Friday before attending a high-level discussion on financing and climate change held in...
Peru vows strive for real progress at COP20 meet in Lima
2014-10-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Latin American Herald Tribune: Peruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal pledged Friday that his country will strive to ensure progress during the 20th session of the UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, set for Dec. 1-12 in Lima. The government of Peru, in its capacity as chair of the next COP, will make the maximum efforts to achieve significant advances on various fronts, inside and outside of the (UN) negotiating process, Pulgar said in a statement read by his Cabinet colleague, Economy and Finance...
Can Peru Control the Murderous Resource Rush on its Forest Frontiers?
2014-10-10 18:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Six weeks ago, a powerful voice for conservation and governance on Perus ragged, violent Amazon rain forest frontier was silenced, adding the name Edwin Chota to the lamentable list of campaigners and others killed around the world in places where a rush for valuable resources takes place in the absence of enforced rules. Chota, a leader of the Ashaninka Indian village of Saweto near the border with Brazil, was murdered with three companions on Sept. 1. As Scott Wallace so vividly reported for...
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Two Peru wind projects receive $67m loan from IDB
2014-09-29 01:00:00| Power Technology
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will provide long-term loans worth a combined $67.3m to two wind farms located south of Lima, Peru.
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