Category Archives: noticias

What are the risks of a possible FTA between Ecuador and Europe?

Published: July 8, 2012 BY: Paulina Muñoz Samaniego (Spokesperson for Ecuador Decide) Ecuadorian Women's Movement. Despite a widespread understanding that the cause of the global crisis—economic, environmental, and civilizational—is fundamentally due to the imposition of neoliberal policies promoted by large multinationals and financial mafias, in […]

Ecuador: A dumping ground for Russian nuclear waste?

Ecuador has always maintained a peaceful approach and supported all nuclear non-proliferation agreements. However, the signing of the "Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Ecuador and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Use of Atomic Energy for Nuclear Purposes" […]

Writers committed to the Earth.

Writers from around the world, including Günter Grass (Nobel Prize winner in 1999), J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter), and Chilean author Isabel Allende, are actively committed to recycling, pressuring publishers to print their books on recycled paper. It is estimated that sales of the book in Canada alone will generate […]

The reappearance of the El Niño phenomenon is forecast according to the World Meteorological Organization.

After the last La Niña episode ended last April, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) forecasts predict the reappearance of the El Niño weather phenomenon during the second half of this year. "Since the end of the 2011-12 La Niña episode in April 2012, neutral conditions have prevailed, […]

GMOs and politics: Monsanto and the overthrow of Lugo.

Poster circulating on social media. This article was written a few hours before the overthrow of Fernando Lugo in Paraguay. Idilio Méndez explains the keys behind the political plot in a country besieged by agribusiness and with a political class serving its interests. Who is behind this sinister plot? […]

Ecuador does not offer good conditions for investing in clean energy

By The Associated Press Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama are the Latin American countries best positioned to attract clean energy investments, according to a report released during meetings leading up to the Rio+20 Summit. The Climatescope index evaluated 26 countries in the region in four different categories. With scores ranging from 0 to 5, Brazil […]

Ranking of companies facing climate change.

An effective and practical tool is now available for Responsible Consumers to choose which brands they buy. This is the Piensa en Clima project, which ranks companies based on their behavior regarding climate change, grouping the final results into three categories: the most advanced ("think about the climate"), the […]

Tuna bans in the Pacific, are they enough?

Although countries that catch tuna in the Pacific view the ban as a form of responsible fishing, this mechanism alone is not sufficient to ensure the survival of a globally threatened resource, environmentalists counter. The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), which brings together tuna fishing countries […]

KFC in the crosshairs of a global revolt

"Colonel Sanders's best-kept secret is finally out," announces the environmental organization Greenpeace on the official website of the "KFC Turns the Rainforest into Trash" campaign, which aims to pressure the food transnational to break with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), after discovering that the paper mill (accused of […]

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