A Análise Ambiental e de Sustentabilidade (AAS) do Estado do Amazonas considera o grau de cumprimento dos próprios objetivos ambientais do estado. Na avaliação são analisadas as condições ambientais, as pressões sobre o meio ambiente e as respostas dos setores público e privado para atingir os objetivos de proteção ambiental e uso sustentável dos recursos naturais. Com base nos objetivos de política são propostas e discutidas 35 recomendações com o propósito de fortalecer o avanço do estado em matéria de meio ambiente, no contexto do desenvolvimento sustentável. Uma das características mais i…
Commercial bioprospecting activities in Latin America and the Caribbean assume various different forms and approaches in accordance with the target markets, the country context and business models involved. While prospecting for medicinally or industrially valuable substances derived from natural resources is not necessarily a new phenomenon, the systematic search for biologically active compounds in nature has gained a new significance as a component of biodiversity conservation strategies. Furthermore, the increasing availability of new scientific and technological tools have enabled new lev…
PrefaceIn our first paper, UN-Energy focused on The Energy Challenge for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We pointed out that available energy services fail to meet the needs of the world's poor, with 2.4 billion people relying on traditional biomass for their energy needs and 1.6 billion not having any access to electricity. The basic commitments to poor people cannot be met without a far more focused approach to energy services.At the same time, awareness has grown across the world of the impact of human energy consumption on our environment, and specifically on o…
PrefacioEn nuestro primer documento, ONUEnergía se centró en El desafío de la Energía para Alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio . Señalamos que los servicios energéticos disponibles no han logrado satisfacer las necesidades de los más pobres del mundo, con 2.400 millones de personas que recurren a la biomasa tradicional para sus necesidades energéticas, y 1.600 millones sin acceso alguno a la electricidad. Los compromisos básicos para la gente pobre no se pueden alcanzar sin un enfoque mucho más centrado hacia los servicios energéticos.Al mismo tiempo, se ha visto un fuerte au…
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