Renewable readiness assessment: Paraguay
This report examines Paraguay’s energy institutions and their governance, long-term energy planning practices, and the socio-economic benefits of promoting renewable and low-carbon technologies in the
Paraguay
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InsuResilience 2018 report: working toward a climate-resilient future
In this first Annual Report, the InsuResilience Global Partnership for Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance highlights the initiatives that the different actors worked on towards the Partnership’s
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Paraguay's First Digital Indigenous Map Aims to Reduce Land Conflicts
Indigenous groups in Paraguay, battling to protect their ancestral lands from expanding agriculture and cattle ranching, launched the first online map of their territory Tuesday. Paraguay's beef and
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WHO global surveillance and monitoring system for substandard and falsified medical products
<p>Approximately 10.5% of medicines in low and middle income countries including India are sub-standard and falsified, said WHO in this report.</p>
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Deforestation-free commodities represent a major investment opportunity: Report
It’s estimated that about 10 per cent of global emissions comes from deforestation — meaning we could make considerable progress toward halting climate change simply by keeping what remains of the world’s
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Paraguay Detects First Zika-Linked Cases of Microcephaly
ASUNCION – The government of Paraguay said on Wednesday that health officials have registered the country’s first two instances of Zika-infected mothers’ giving birth to babies with abnormally small skulls,
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Brazil indigenous community faces imminent eviction over land dispute: Amnesty
An indigenous community in southwestern Brazil faces imminent eviction from its traditional territories, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, in a case exemplifying ongoing land conflicts in South America's
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Paraguayan Farmers Defend Native Seeds over GMOs
ASUNCION – About 100 farmers with peasant organizations on Tuesday left their family farms in Paraguay’s interior to attend a fair in downtown Asuncion, where they displayed their native seeds, the basis
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Paraguay could face threat from dengue, other fevers this year
Paraguay could face problems this year with dengue and other fevers transmitted by mosquitoes, which have proliferated due to rainy weather during the Southern Hemisphere summer, a health ministry official
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Paraguay calls for complete evacuation of town of 7,000 people
The government of Paraguay called on Thursday for the total evacuation of the town of Alberdi, with 7,000 people, due to the risk of flooding after a wall holding back the Paraguay river is set to burst.