Latin American and Caribbean nations have advanced in providing clean water and sanitation to their citizens, but their policies continue to fuel deforestation, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse-gas emissions, a new United Nations report concludes. “The region … has a long way to go in terms of achieving substantial and permanent progress in sustainable development,” says the report, issued Feb. 17 in Mexico City. It has yet to “change the structures of an economic model which, to date, has failed to overcome the … problems of poverty and marginality and to protect the environment.” The UN report is entitled “Millennium Development Goals: Advances in Environmentally Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.” It measures the region’s progress in ensuring environmental sustainability, the seventh of the eight... [Log in to read more]