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Peru's farmers fight climate change using modern and Inca techniques
2014-01-20 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When he is not watching his flock Silverio Chiquenayra-Quispe takes care of the Pumatalya weather station, located between the brightly coloured local council building, the chapel and the bovine artificial insemination centre. At 3,800 metres above sea level, on the high plateaus of the Andes, the little town is four hours by road from the provincial capital of Cusco in Peru. Three times a day, at 7am, 1pm and 5pm, Chiquenayra-Quispe records the temperature, wind speed and rainfall. He takes readings...
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Climate Change Threatens Perus Economic Progress As Amazon Becomes Net Emitter of CO2
2013-12-26 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Peru is the country chosen to host the 2014 United Nations (UN) climate conference, a key meeting for trying to advance an ambitious plan to rein in greenhouse emissions which is planned for agreement in 2015. Scientists think Peru`s role reversal from being a carbon sink to a net emitter of CO2 in 2012 is result of droughts in the western Amazon. Photo credit: tadd_debbie /Flickr But the country has recently earned a rather more dubious distinction. In 2012, for the first time, the Peruvian...
Why climate change threatens Peru's poverty reduction mission
2013-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Peruvian Amazon became a net emitter of carbon dioxide rather than oxygen for the first time in 2012, according to the UN Development Programme's (UNDP) latest human development country report. The reversal of the rainforest's usual role as a carbon sink is a direct result of the droughts in the western Amazon in 2005 and 2010 and a stark reminder, say scientists, that this mega-biodiverse country is highly vulnerable to climate change. Peru, which has four of the five geographical areas...
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Mott MacDonald to monitor Perus third largest hydropower project
2013-12-06 01:00:00| Power Technology
UK-based Mott MacDonald has been selected as independent engineer by The Bank of New York Mellon to monitor construction of the 406MW Chaglla hydroelectric power generation project in Peru.
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Destruction of Perus rainforest by illegal gold mining is twice as bad as experts thought
2013-10-28 18:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The destruction of a global biodiversity hotspot deep in the Peruvian Amazon by illegal gold mining is twice as bad as previously thought, an authoritative new study using ground-breaking technology has revealed. According to the report by the US-based Carnegie Institution for Science, 15,810 acres of rainforest in Perus Madre de Dios region, home to various nature and indigenous reserves as well as a booming eco-tourism industry, have vanished per year since the start of the 2008 global economic...
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