The use of biofuels is one of the most controversial issues among the environmentalists nowadays. While most of environmentalist agree that biofuels are a risk for the biodiversity and natural lands, most of the countries are developing National Biofuel Programs in order to reduce their green house gas (GHG) emissions and/or diversify the energy sources. […]
Febrero 23, 2007
Febrero 16, 2007
Forget Cannes, how ’bout DC?
Have you ever heard of such a thing as an environmental film festival? I hadn’t, but I was looking to last year’s posts so as to update one of them and I found that every year an Environmental Film Festival occur in Washington D.C. The 15th edition of the festival will take place from Thursday […]
Febrero 9, 2007
Debt-for-environment Swap
During the 80’s a new approach to developing countries financing problems appeared: exchanging environment for external debt.
This doesn’t mean that a country will log a forest so as to sell wood and be able to pay its external doubt. On the contrary, is a non-traditional approach that help developing countries to protect their nature at […]
