Inter Press Service - Latin America and the Caribbean

Artículos

• Cuban Innovator Uses Sunlight to Create a Model Sustainable Space

  23 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Luis Brizuela — Climate Action, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Energy, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Green Economy, Headlines, Integration and Development Brazilian-style, Latin America & the Caribbean, Projects, Regional Categories, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Cuba, Solar Energy
  After making a model for a solar heater, installing solar panels and creating a device to dehydrate food with the help of the sun, Félix Morffi is turning his home into a space for the production and promotion of renewable energies in Cuba. With two tanks, glass, aluminum sheets, as well as (...)

• Inequality in Peru’s Education Sector Deepens in Post-Pandemic Era

  22 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Mariela Jara — Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Education, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Inequality, Latin America & the Caribbean, Regional Categories, TerraViva United Nations, Indigenous, Peru
  “When the pandemic hit, I stopped studying, just when it was my last year of school…My parents couldn’t afford to pay for internet at home,” said Rodrigo Reyes, 18, one of the nearly 250,000 children who dropped out of school in 2020. This figure includes primary and secondary school students who (...)

• Guatemalans Fight Extractive Industries

  21 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Edgardo Ayala — Active Citizens, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean, Natural Resources, Regional Categories, TerraViva United Nations, gold mining, Guatemala, Mines, Pollution
  The majority of the Guatemalan population continues to oppose mining and other extractive projects, in the midst of a scenario of socio-environmental conflict that pits communities defending their natural resources against the interests of multinational corporations. The most recent rejection (...)

• Mexico’s Electric Mobility, Stuck in Fossil Fuel Traffic

  19 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Emilio Godoy — Climate Action, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Energy, Environment, Featured, Green Economy, Headlines, Integration and Development Brazilian-style, Latin America & the Caribbean, Projects, Regional Categories, TerraViva United Nations, Electric Vehicles (EV), Mexico
  The Mexico City government began testing an elevated route for electric buses with great fanfare on Sept. 11, in a bid to promote more sustainable transport. The initiative is part of an incipient promotion of electromobility in the country, amidst pro-fossil fuel energy policies. Mexico, a (...)

• Great Wind and Solar Potential Boosts Green Hydrogen in Northern Brazil

  15 de septiembre, puesto en línea por Mario Osava — Climate Action, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Energy, Environment, Featured, Green Economy, Headlines, Integration and Development Brazilian-style, Latin America & the Caribbean, Natural Resources, Projects, Regional Categories, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Trade & Investment, Brazil, Green hydrogen, Solar Energy, Wind Energy
  Brazil could become a world leader in the production of green hydrogen, and the northeastern state of Ceará has anticipated this future role by making the port of Pecém, with its export processing zone, a hub for this energy source. The government of Ceará has already signed 22 memorandums of (...)