Implications of the commitments made in the Paris agreement by former President Evo Morales are discussed in this Spanish-language article published in El Dia. Pablo Solon and Teresa Hosse (Coordinator of the Bolivian Platform to Combat Climate Change) consider these commitments to be insufficient and misleading. For instance, “hydroelectric power is included as renewable when they emit gases that contribute to global warming.” According to Teresa Hosse, the planned Chepete and Rosita hydroelectric dams are “not renewable energy because flooding the forests will generate greenhouse gases. It is not a solution.”
Zero illegal deforestation by 2020, a pending promise that new government must fulfill