European Banks Financing Damaging Agrofuels in Latin America

Many major European banks are funding the rapid expansion of agrofuel production in Latin America, leading to large scale deforestation, increasing human right abuses and threatening food sovereignty, according to a new report Read more...

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Interoceanic Highway

Peru

This controversial transcontinental road project threatens the environment and indigenous communities in both Peru and Brazil.

Ecuador

Río Madeira Complex

Bolivia; Brazil

This multi-billion dollar hydroelectric complex threatens one of the Amazon Basin’s main southern tributaries.

Programa vial del corredor norte (Tramo Rio Branco/La Paz, La Paz-Caranavi)

Bolivia; Brazil

Gasoducto del Noreste y Anillo energetico (Gasoducto sudarmericano)

Argentina; Bolivia

Proyecto ancla: Pasto - Mocoa variantes de Pavimentación

Colombia

Proyecto de 4 partes viales. Finanaciación incial.

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