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Former U.S. Vice-President and environmental activist Al Gore highlighted the potential and progress made by Peru to tackle climate change and warned about its effects across the nation. Related: Al Gore Gives Good Powerpoint |
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Peru's President, Ollanta Humala, announced this morning Peru will provide US$6 million to the Green Climate Fund.
The fund is a financial mechanism, which aims at supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation actions.
The contribution was considered as "high priority", by the Peruvian Head of State.
Mr. Humala warned Peru is already suffering the impacts posed by global warming.
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Peru's Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal expressed confidence that the negotiations to draft a new global climate agreement would be on track for success at the 20th UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP20).
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 Peruvian Minister of Energy and Mines, Eleodoro Mayorga, met with France's Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Minister, Segolene Royal, and a French government delegation to assess their commitments to acting on climate change.
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 A great step forward in Peru was the implementation of the Forest Conservation Program, which emerged thanks to a proposal of the Peruvian government presented at the Fourteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP14) in Poznan, Poland.
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 Finance Minister Alonso Segura affirmed Peru will immediately benefit from the agreement with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as it will allow the country to incorporate good practices of public government into its regulatory frameworks.
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 Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency - ProInversion will hold a forum titled "Business and Investment Opportunities in Peru" in Murcia, Spain, according to a resolution published today in El Peruano official journal.
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 Peru has secured additional funding for its US$5.8 billion Lima metro line No.2 project, which is due to be completed by 2020. Just a day after receiving a US$750 million from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Caracas-based lender CAF agreed to lend a further US$150 million, the third loan it has granted the initiative.
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According to the Energy and Mines Ministry, the national copper production reached a total 1'150,064 metric fine tons, between January and October this year.
This represents a 2.15 % increase compared to the same period last year.
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ADEX (Exporters Association of Peru) agro-management area confirmed the highest shipments of avocado, grapes, quinoa, cocoa and mango had pushed the agricultural exports to reach the US$3.921 billion on the January - October period. |
High in the Peruvian Andes, the glacier-fed lake Laguna 513 brims with meltwater atop a populated valley in a region prone to earthquakes. Scientists warn that if a giant chunk of ice from the Hualcan glacier breaks off it could trigger a tsunami-like wave in Laguna 513 and send a lethal torrent of water cascading down the valley. It has happened before in the Andean nation. In 1970, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook ice blocks into highland lakes and unleashed an avalanche that buried the town of Yungay and killed more than 20,000 people. |
Peru and Chile subscribed today an environmental cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening both nations' capabilities regarding the matter.
It implies developing policies for protecting the environment, preserving natural resources and managing ecology related matters.
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Peru's President, Ollanta Humala, will meet US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and France Chancellor, Laurent Fabius separately.
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The President of the Republic of Peru, Ollanta Humala Tasso, received in audience the President of the United Nations General Assembly's sixty-ninth session, Sam Kahamba Kutesa of Uganda.
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UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, cooked today some fresh Peruvian quinoa and olluco cebiche in the framework of the COP20-related activities.
Ban's cooking was directed by two of Peru's most famous chefs, Gaston Acurio and Virgilio Martinez.
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, joined Ban Ki-moon by preparing mushroom cebiche under Acurio's direction. Related: Chefs promote sustainable cooking at COP20 |
 COP20 attendees not only taste Peruvian traditional cocktails and cuisine, but also learn how to prepare drinks like pisco sour or even ceviche, one of Peru's most representative dishes.
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The edition of the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA) placed Peru as the 2014 World's Leading Culinary Destination and government-run official tourism website (Peru.travel) was pronounced the World's Leading Tourism Authority Website 2014, confirmed the Foreign Trade and Tourism minister, Magali Silva. |
Peru's Culture Ministry has expressed indignation about the events that took place near the hummingbird figure in the Nazca Lines heritage site, which was damaged by Greenpeace activists while staging an environmental protest.
"This area is a UNESCO world heritage site, any intervention in this area is strictly prohibited due to its fragility," said the Culture Ministry.
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 A Peruvian player is recovering in hospital after being struck by lightning during a Copa Peru match between his Sport Aguila side and visitors Union Fuerza Mineira, the away club and local media reports said on Wednesday.
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