Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Peru.
- Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2024)
- International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 29, 2024)
- Lima’s neurodiverse picnic movement is liberating Peruvians from stigma and abuse, positive.news (Mar 13, 2024)
2021-2023[edit | edit source]
- Partnering with communities and llama herders in the Andes to improve soil quality and plant productivity as more ice retreats, news.mongabay.com (Nov 27, 2023)
- A Peruvian farmer is trying to hold energy giant RWE responsible for climate change – the inside story of his groundbreaking court case, theconversation.com (Nov 27, 2023)
- The seed guardians of Peru trying to save the potato, BBC Future (Oct 03, 2023)
- How a group of Peruvian coffee farmers are thriving despite the odds, positive.news (Jul 12, 2023)
- Indigenous Peoples defend a precious natural resource- empowering them protects us all, ashden.org (Feb 14, 2023)
- Nature surpassing nation: the Amazon Sacred Headwaters shows how a bioregion can transcend borders, The Daily Alternative (Mar 14, 2022)
- Gen Z on how to save the world: young climate activists speak out, The Guardian (Oct 17, 2021) — Features activists from Philippines, Australia, India, US, Uganda, Pakistan, Peru, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Kenya and Canada
2013-2017[edit | edit source]
- Trees in Andes to counter Peru's climate and water crisis, says Swiss scientist, Feb 20, 2017...[1]
- Peru protects vast 'Yellowstone of the Amazon', November 9, 2015...[2]
- In Peru, beach cleanup scheme helps disadvantaged people become entrepreneurs, February 12, 2014...[3]
- Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To 2 Million Of Its Poorest Residents By 2016,[4] July 23, 2013.
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2008-2010[edit | edit source]
- Marcamasi [es] reports that in Peru more than 8,000 people managed to plant 27,166 trees in 5 minutes and 20 seconds, achieving a new Guinness record, 6 June 2010. This also marks the beginning of a national campaign called "Toward 180 million trees" ("Rumbo a los 180 millones de árboles") with the theme "Let's change our attitude, let's sow a plant" ("Cambiemos de actitud, sembremos una planta").[1] Written by Silvia Viñas, June 6, 2010.
- Projects from Peru and Lao PDR share UNEP Sasakawa prize 2008,[2] June 4, 2018. Practical Action, founded in 1966, is working in Peru's eastern Andes where 68 per cent of the population - around 5 million people - do not have access to electricity. The project makes use of the region's vast potential for hydroelectricity: to date, 47 micro-hydro schemes have been installed in the area through Practical Action, bringing clean power to about 30,000 people.
- Through this project, Practical Action is also boosting local industry, as most of the turbines are manufactured by small companies in Peru to Practical Action designs - with each company making three or four turbines a year. Practical Action says it sees local manufacture as a key step towards widespread use of renewable energy.
- The electricity supply is boosting the development of the remote communities. Previously, people moved away to start businesses in places where the infrastructure was better, but the electricity from the micro-hydro schemes has brought them back. Some villages have doubled in size, with people returning and others starting or expanding businesses including restaurants, bakeries, furniture makers, welders and internet cafes.
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