IRI Colombia prepares 17 guides to support the formulation of territorial development plans with a focus on forest protection
IRI Colombia has developed 17 conceptual guides to support the formulation of Territorial Development Plans with an Amazonian environmental approach. The guides are aimed at the mayors’ offices of 14 municipalities and the governors’ offices of three Amazonian departments, covering a total of 42 local chapters. Their creation is part of the commitment statement and […]
IRI Brazil secures cooperation agreement with the Legislative Assembly of Acre
At a meeting attended by the president of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Acre, Deputy Luis Gonzaga, and the National Facilitator of IRI Brazil, Carlos Vicente, on February 2nd in Rio Branco-AC, a cooperation agreement was established for the development of activities to raise awareness among the state’s deputies and the population in […]
Puerto Guzmán and the department of Putumayo will include IRI’s proposals in their Development Plans.
From 2017 to 2022, Putumayo lost more than 63,000 hectares of forest, according to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM). Despite a slight reduction in deforestation figures, every year the department loses thousands of hectares of forest. To explicitly include in the municipal and departmental Development Plans the seriousness of the problem […]
The governor of Caquetá and the mayors of Cartagena del Chairá, San Vicente del Caguán and Curillo will include IRI-Colombia’s proposals in their development plans.
The conservation of Caquetá’s tropical forests should be a priority for the department. According to Global Forest Watch, in the last two decades it has lost more than 756,000 hectares of forest and for many years the municipalities of San Vicente del Caguán and Cartagena del Chairá, for example, have had the highest deforestation rates. […]
IRI-Colombia works to make tropical forest protection a priority in municipal and departmental development plans
Thanks to the advocacy work of the Inter-Religious Initiative for Tropical Forests in Colombia, the Governor’s Office of Guaviare and the Mayors’ Offices of San José del Guaviare, El Retorno, Calamar and Miraflores have agreed to include forest protection proposals in the environmental component of the Development Plans, which will be valid for four years […]
IRI Brazil Issues Call To Action At Un Climate Conference (COP28)
As a contribution to COP28 in Dubai, IRI Brazil issued a call to action to the Government of Brazil calling for making the protection of forests a priority strategy in addressing climate change. The call to action reads, in part “The reality itself serves as our alarm: the era of procrastination has ended. What we […]
