AGP Executive Report
Last update: 2 hours agoEl Niño and heat impacts: Paraguay’s weather service confirmed a weekend heatwave that shattered a 74-year temperature record across more than a dozen localities, with Mariscal Estigarribia in the Chaco reaching 43.8°C. Super El Niño storms: A powerful storm with winds up to 90 km/h left at least 4,000 families affected and damaged homes, power lines and crops in Caaguazú, San Pedro and Cordillera. Climate risk for children: UNICEF warned that 25.8 million children across Latin America and the Caribbean face very high El Niño-related risks from rainfall deficits or excess rainfall, threatening food, safe water, health care and education. Biodiversity and conservation: Paraguay’s San Rafael landscape in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest is highlighted as a key biodiversity area, but enforcement and funding gaps leave the protected area vulnerable. Sustainable procurement: Paraguay’s public procurement agency DNCP improved tracking of sustainable public procurement by adding sustainability clauses into e-GP and building a dashboard to measure uptake, identifying over 10,000 sustainability clauses in two years. Wildlife spotlight: Paraguay’s bat conservation programme is gaining momentum ahead of Latin America’s Bat Day, using local identity to rebuild outreach and research networks.
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