A call for $700 billion in sustainable infrastructure investments

As the global population expands to 9 billion by 2050, we are set to spend trillions of dollars on supporting infrastructure that is likely to damage our climate. The good news is that spending more up front on making that infrastructure sustainable will pay off in the long run and provide new growth opportunities.

That’s the conclusion reached by a group of multinational businesses and institutions — called Green Growth Alliance — tasked by the G20 to consider green growth. To make that vision a reality, though, governments would need to spend $130 billion — an amount that could, if well directed, mobilize another $570 billion of private finance, the group argues in a report released this week.

Los empresarios de turismo, contra la caza en el Parque Nacional de Cabañeros

La Asociación de Turismo Sostenible del Parque Nacional de Cabañeros, que agrupa a la mayor parte de los empresarios turísticos de la comarca, ha rechazado rotundamente que se pueda volver a cazar en el Parque Nacional de Cabañeros.

 

El presidente de esta asociación, Eladio Gómez, ha dicho hoy a Efe que la petición realizada por la Real Federación de Caza de España y por Aproca Castilla-La Mancha «no tiene justificación alguna y es inaceptable a todas luces por la comarca y los empresarios».

Ziyarates Fez: a Step towards Sustainable Tourism

In the heart of the medina of Fez—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—a new project to attract tourists began in 2008. The project involved 26 families in the tourism sector. The families involved are owners of houses with traditional architecture and decorations. Many of these people have little to no income.

The tourism project is part of the National Initiative of Human Development, a committee which specializes in tourism. The group visited the traditional houses and decided which ones should be chosen to be part of the project and which homes would be excluded. Their selections were based on the extent to which the houses are traditional, on the geographical situation and also on the reputation of families themselves–as they are meant to represent the Moroccan culture and the customs of the millenary city of Fez.