In Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS), electrical power outages are frequent in the aftermath of major weather events. While local service disruptions often last a few days after these events, nationwide power grid failures lasting several weeks, or months have resulted in enormous social and economic impacts. In 2017, Hurricane Maria left 90 per cent of the population of Dominica without access to electricity for over four months (Commonwealth of Dominica, 2020) and caused a systemwide collapse of Puerto Rico's power grid that took 11 months to be entirely restored (Campbell…
El día 2 de diciembre, la CEPAL y el Instituto Federal de Geociencias y Recursos Naturales de Alemania (BGR) organizaron en Bogotá, Colombia, el evento titulado “Experiencias internacionales en el manejo de los pasivos ambientales”…
The global community claims to be committed to finding a solution to arresting rising global temperatures limiting global warming to well below 2 °C, preferably 1.5 °C (UNFCCC, 2022), to ensure that all life, livelihoods and the overall health and welfare of ecosystems animals and humans are secured (IPCC 2018). The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports paint a picture that shows increased intensity and frequency of climatic conditions and extreme events as emerging trends (IPCC 2018). Global warming beyond 1.5 °C will be devastating; in fact, projections show at 2 °C warming ma…
Water, by its continuous movement within the Earth and the atmosphere is the primary medium through which climate change influences this planet’s natural, physical, chemical and biological systems and processes. Global warming is affecting seasonal rainfall variabilities, precipitation rates, and resulting in uncertainties of freshwater supplies. Fresh water including both surface and ground is a finite resource and essential to sustaining human health, economic, environmental and ecosystem services (UN 2021). The Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS) are highly vulnerable to the imp…
La GIZ, el Instituto Federal de Geociencias y Recursos Naturales de Alemania (BGR), la Organización Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores (OLACEFS), la Asociación de Servicios de Geología y Minería Iberoamericanos (ASGMI), la Federación Iberoamericana del Ombudsman (FIO) y la CEPAL organizarán el evento “Presiones sobre la Biodiversidad y los Ecosistemas: Hacia una correcta gestión sostenible de los pasivos ambientales mineros.…
Colombia lleva poco más de una década desplegando esfuerzos a nivel nacional y subnacional para caracterizar y gestionar los Pasivos Ambientales (PAC) y los Pasivos Ambientales Mineros (PAM). En este documento se proponen diversos componentes e instrumentos de evaluación técnica, jurídica, financiera, de participación y gobernanza para una gestión integral de los PAM. Lo anterior se desarrolla desde un enfoque multisistémico que incluye componentes: mineros, ambientales, de riesgo de desastres, de ordenamiento territorial y climático.
En los últimos diez años, tanto el Ministerio de Ambiente …
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