Topic: brazil

The World Resources Institute and the Environmental Investigation Agency today launch a partnership to combat illegal logging worldwide and clean up timber supply chains.

Mexico City, Mexico; Londrina, Brazil; and Tulancingo, Mexico won top awards in a contest here today for urban renewal projects designed to promote physical activity and cut down on local obesity rates and other diseases related to inactive lifestyles.

In Brazil, the BOP market for ICT is 97 percent urban, and average annual spending by urban BOP households ($203) is seven times that spent by rural BOP households.

EGI offers a new hope for electricity in Brazil.

The Brazil Greenhouse Gas Protocol Program was launched today and its 12 founding corporate members have voluntarily agreed to report their global-warming emissions.

In the latest sign of progress on addressing greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, 16 major Brazilian corporations will be implementing voluntary national program to measure and report emissions.

Corporate procurement managers are increasingly looking for ways to ensure that wood and paper-based products are environmentally and socially sound. The WRI/WBCSD procurement guide being released today is a toolbox to help them.

Corporate managers will now get powerful help with today’s release of a “Guide to the Guides” - a toolbox that helps them understand and find the best advice on how to purchase products originating from the world’s forests.

In many developing countries, forestry policies systematically exclude the poor from the wealth of the forests around them. Senegal provides an interesting example of how even good policies can fail to deliver the benefits they are intended to provide.

Unfair government policies fail to benefit poor people who live in the forests of many developing countries. Those same policies fail even to protect forests, according to a new study.

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review road-tested by Akzo Nobel,

BC Hydro, Mondi, Rio Tinto, and Syngenta

Dr. Lee Schipper, EMBARQ fellow at EMBARQ - The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport, has been appointed as an editorial board member of the prestigious Transport Policy journal, the official journal of the World Conference on Transport Research Society.

The Governance of Forests Initiative is a global network that promotes transparent, participatory, accountable, and coordinated governance of forest lands and resources.

WRI, EIA Form Partnership to Stem Illegal Forest Products Imported Into U.S.

Latin American Cities Get Physical in Fight Against Obesity and Chronic Disease

Brazil: Total BOP ICT Spending by Income Segment

Electricity Goverance Initiative Launched in Brazil

Brazilian Companies Announce Global Warming Game Plan

Brazil Launches Its GHG Protocol Program

The 10 Big Questions For Corporate Forest Product Purchasing

New Toolbox Demystifies Green Forest Product Purchasing

Wood and Paper-Based Product Procurement: 10 Things You Should Know

Poor in Senegal Denied Benefits of Forest Resources

Unfair Forestry Policies Abet Poverty, Finds New Study

Leading Companies Responding to Ecosystem Degradation

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review road-tested by Akzo Nobel,

BC Hydro, Mondi, Rio Tinto, and Syngenta

Measuring The Invisible: Quantifying Emissions Reductions From Transport Solutions - Porto Alegre Case Study

EMBARQ’s Lee Schipper Appointed to Editorial Board of Transport Policy

The Governance of Forests Initiative

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Corporate Ecosystem Services Review road-tested by Akzo Nobel,

BC Hydro, Mondi, Rio Tinto, and Syngenta

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