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This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from June16, 2017 – July 15, 2017. Latin America continues its breathtaking pace in releasing new environmental and sustainability initiatives and embracing international commitments on a wide array of issues. Brazil has ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury, and its Senate has proposed a new mandatory environmental insurance bill; Chile has

This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from November 16-December 15, 2016. Happy New Year! As 2016 ended, Latin America continued its focus on sustainability issues and renewable energy policies, spurred in large part by new commitments under the Paris Agreement. Argentina proposed a bill that would promote installation of wind power and solar energy through credit lines; São Paulo...

This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from October 16 - November 15, 2016. During this last reporting period, key developments include: - Argentina’s congress proposes a spate of new initiatives to govern wastes and packaging, increasing their critical mass and paving the way for a national law. The Ministry of Environment is in the process of developing a draft law for the...

Last week, beneath the fanfare surrounding issuance of internal regulations for Mexico’s new oil and gas agency[1] and a suite of conforming amendments to more than half a dozen environmental regulations, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales or SEMARNAT) quietly issued the nation’s new greenhouse gas (GHG) registry and reporting...