Comptroller general: Latin American gov’ts need to do more to mitigate climate change

As parts of Latin America will be among the world’s most vulnerable to climate change, governments in the region have not done enough to mitigate damage, according to Peru’s comptroller general, Fuad Khoury. “While countries don’t adopt the fundamental measures needed to mitigate climate change, they will continue to have problems,” state news agency Andina reported Khoury [...]

Regions plan for Earth Hour 2011 with cultural, educational activities

At least five Peruvian regions have said they will turn off their lights for an hour this Saturday to take part in Earth Hour 2011, state news agency Andina reported. In Iquitos, the capital of the north-east Loreto department, the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP) and the Environmental Youth Volunteer Network plan to perform typical [...]

Report: Climate change causing historic shortage of water in Tacna

The department of Tacna, on Peru’s southern border with Chile and Bolivia, is facing some of the scarcest water conditions in its history as a result of climate change, according to a report by the Peruvian think-tank Analysis for Development Group (Grade), the Washington D.C.-based Inter-American Development Bank, and the country’s Ministry of the Environment (Minam). Areas [...]

National water agency to team up with France’s IRD for glacier study

Peru’s national water authority, ANA, will team up with French development agency IRD to conduct scientific studies on the evolution of glaciers in Peru and how they have retreated over the last decade as a result of global warming. The study is part of a new cooperation agreement between ANA and the IRD to identify [...]

Germany contributes 60 mn euros to forestry conservation projects

Peru and Germany have signed a joint strategy agreement in which Germany will contribute approximately 60 million euros for forestry conservation, state news agency Andina reported. The four-year strategy is for Sustainable Rural Development – Management of Natural Resources and Climate Change, which covers a series of projects operated by the Ministry of the Environment [...]

Al Gore: Kudos to Peru for democracy and economic boom; all the better to confront global warming threat

“I want to talk to you today about the climate crisis and I want to put some of these thoughts in the context of the challenges you are facing here in Peru,” Gore told the audience. “Many, if not most companies trying to establish leadership in combating global warming, have found that clean technologies are good for their operations as they have benefited in many ways including better brands and a great reception from consumers”

Amazon’s water level shows signs of recovery after reaching historic low

The Amazon River’s water level in Peru’s Loreto department is starting to show signs of recovery after the level had fallen to a historic low earlier this month, state news agency Andina reported. On Sunday, authorities from the national meteorology and hydrology service Senamhi in Loreto measured the water level and found that it was [...]

Environment Minister Brack inaugurates conference 3R3: Towards a Green Peru

Environment Minister Antonio Brack inaugurated the environmental conference 3R3: Towards a Green Peru on Monday. During the conference, Brack said that about 80 percent of solid waste in Peru is left untreated in the environment, state news agency Andina reported. “Never before has humanity had as much technology in its reach to see what is [...]

Arid Lima among most wasteful cities for water consumption

Peru’s capital Lima is one of the most wasteful consumers of water among major cities despite a shortage of the precious resource, according to Nicole Bernex Weiss, the academic director at the Catholic University’s (PUCP) Center for Applied Geographical Research. The per capita consumption of water in Lima, the world’s second largest desert city after [...]

Peru goes dark during Earth Hour 2010

Residents in Peru’s capital Lima switched off their lights Saturday evening joining thousands of cities and millions of people around the globe who took part in the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2010. Earth Hour took place from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time in 125 counties to make a statement against climate change, [...]

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