Jose Ignacio Noguera is the vice president of corporate affairs for the mining company Gran Colombia Gold. He is responsible for managing the company’s sustainability, public affairs, external and government affairs strategy. Chemonics partnered with Gran Colombia Gold through the USAID-funded BioREDD+ project to address the complex challenge of illegal mining operations in Antioquia, one of…
“With less than 5 percent of world population, the U.S. uses one-third of the world’s paper, a quarter of the world’s oil, 23 percent of the coal, 27 percent of the aluminum, and 19 percent of the copper… [and] a child born in the United States will create thirteen times as much ecological damage over…
“I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all…
Chemonics launched its first development project in 1975, just five years after the first Earth Day rallies in 1970 sparked the modern environmental movement. Since then, the company has implemented more than 200 projects in biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, climate change adaptation, and related areas. Certainly, Chemonics’ commitment to building healthier human-nature interactions was…