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The Conference of the Parties (COP20) agreement draft text was finally approved by member parties on Sunday morning in Lima, Peru after an extended session.
COP20 President and Peru's Environment minister, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal announced the document approval at 01:25 AM (local time). The message was followed by a round of applause. |
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hailed the outcome of a United Nations-backed climate conference recently concluded in Lima, Peru, praising delegates for setting the groundwork for a more conclusive agreement to be reached in 2015, a spokesperson for the Organization today announced.
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Negotiators from around the globe reached a climate change agreement early Sunday that would, for the first time in history, commit every nation to reducing its rate of greenhouse gas emissions - yet would still fall far short of what is needed to stave off the dangerous and costly early impact of global warming.
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New pledges from the Governments of Peru, Colombia and Austria now bring the total pledged to the Green Climate Fund close to US$10.2 billion equivalent, from 27 countries.
The Government of the Republic of Peru, which is hosting the 20th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, announced it would pledge US$6 million. "We have to build the biggest alliance in history against global warming. There are no partial solutions, we must act now,"said the Peruvian President, Ollanta Humala.
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Delegates from nearly 200 nations, meeting in Lima, Peru, on Sunday signed off on a working plan for an international global warming deal.
Negotiations ran into overtime and the deal was signed 33 hours behind the schedule, as country representatives debated what kind of information to include in their pledges for the global agreement to be sealed in a Paris next December.
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Climate negotiators salvaged a compromise deal in Lima early Sunday that sets the stage for a global pact in Paris next year, but rejected a rigorous review of the greenhouse gas emissions limits they plan.
More than 30 hours behind schedule, delegates from more than 190 countries agreed on what information should go into the pledges that countries submit for the expected Paris pact.
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 I WAS just about to go with a column that started like this: When they write the history of the global response to climate change, 2014 could well be seen as the moment when the balance between action and denial tipped decisively toward action. That's thanks to the convergence of four giant forces: S�o Paulo, Brazil, went dry; China and the United States together went green; solar panels went cheap; and Google and Apple went home.
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 Review the entire agreement adopted by the parties during COP20 in Lima, Peru.
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In November, the non-financial public sector in Peru registered a surplus of US$378 million and achieved an accumulated surplus of US$3.29 billion in January-November, according to the Central Reserve Bank (BCR).
The national government's tax revenues increased 4.4 percent in the said period, associated with the income tax paid by non-residents.
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Workers at the Peruvian copper and zinc mine Antamina have ended a strike that began last Wednesday and will restart work on Monday, according to the mine owners.
Following a meeting, the workers decided to end the stoppage, after authorities declared it improper, said Antamina, the country's largest copper mine, in a statement late on Saturday.
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Peruvian cooking, which combines foods from the coastal, mountain and jungle regions with traditions of immigrants from Europe, Asia and Africa, has become a global sensation in the past five years. It has put Lima on the tourist map, transforming a city racked by terrorist attacks in the 1990s and considered an inconvenient stop on the way to Machu Picchu. Peru was named the top global culinary destination for a third year running this week at the World Travel Awards, trumping China, France, Italy and the U.S. |
 La Granja Stuart is the newest Peruvian restaurant location to join the family of nearly 40 La Granja restaurants in Florida. La Granja Stuart opened in July 2014, offering the highest quality, freshly made, Peruvian dishes to an eager and welcoming crowd!
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The Inca empire is reputed to start from Coricancha, the Courtyard of Gold, in Cusco. This is the spiritual heart of Cusco, and considered the navel of the Inca empire. Mystical and spiritual theories suggest that Coricancha is located where it is because it is the energetic centre of the area, with energy lines emanating outwards for hundreds of kilometers. Along these energy lines are trails with landscape features, ruins, and temples, close and far away, including some that I've visited such as Moray, Maras, Machu Picchu, and many (many) more. |
 Peruvians and tourists from Andean Community member nations already enjoy evening admission promotional rates of S/.45.00 (around US$15.00) and S/.22.00 (around US$7.50) for adults and students, respectively, to visit the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
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French archaeologists are carefully preparing a 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummy ahead of a new exhibition.
The mummy, a women believed to have been around 50 years old when she was ceremonially buried in the ancient settle of Pachacamac, near Lima, is due to go on display to the public at the Musee de Confluences in Lyons later this month.
She will form part of an exhibition examining human representations of death in different ages and cultures from around the world.
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President Ollanta Humala of Peru criticized the environmental group Greenpeace on Saturday for not respecting his country's archaeological heritage as authorities said they intended to seek criminal charges against several activists who damaged the fragile desert around the Nazca Lines. |
It was with a mix of shock and sadness that I read word of the environmentalist organization Greenpeace's recent stunt at the Nazca Lines in Peru. I had first learned about the Nazca Lines when I was in elementary school, and had always harbored a desire to visit them. Three decades later, I had the opportunity. My wife and I honeymooned in Peru, and on our second day there, we flew over the lines. Alongside a visit to the nearby Ica museum (home to the famous elongated and trepanned skulls), it was a highlight of Peru and part of a trip of a lifetime. That the Nazca Lines were incredibly fragile is Environmentalism 101. The Nazca desert is inordinately dry, and the Nazca plain being largely shielded from wind means that anything that disturbs the desert-a footprint, for example-lasts for centuries if not millennia. |
 The precious stuff that has provoked sudden larceny and luxury in the Peruvian Andes is not drugs, gems or precious metals. It is a pungent, turnip-like vegetable called maca, heralded as a cancer-fighting superfood and sold on the shelves of supermarkets like Whole Foods. It is so popular in China for its perceived aphrodisiac effects that this year Chinese buyers showed up here with suitcases full of cash to buy up the harvest, inciting a gold rush and setting off alarms from Lima to Los Angeles and beyond. As maca booms, some Peruvians fear that they are losing control of a valuable crop with a history that goes back long before the time of the Inca empire.
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