Mexico’s historic energy-sector reform effort to attract international oil and gas investment has had an unexpected consequence: homeowners in growing numbers are turning to solar ......
The day before Pope Francis arrived in this Amazonian city in southeast Peru, indigenous people from three countries that share the rainforest region told Catholic ......
South Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti had high hopes in 2007 when it began to develop its La Colosa open-pit gold mine in Cajamarca, a municipality in ......
Latin America is among the world’s most dangerous regions in which to campaign for environmental and land rights, and two recent murders suggest that this ......
Brazil has enacted legislation to boost the output and use of biofuels and thus reduce carbon emissions. The linchpin of the law, a carbon-credit market ......
Uruguay appears poised to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags, alarmed by the vast quantities of discarded plastic floating in its waters and causing the deaths of ......
Latin American and Caribbean nations are on the verge of signing the region’s first-ever multilateral agreement on environmental rights, following several years of talks. There’s ......
Carlos de Miguel heads the Unit of Policies for Sustainable Development at the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac). As ......
Mexico’s historic energy-sector reform effort to attract international oil and gas investment has had an unexpected consequence: homeowners in growing numbers are turning to solar ......
The day before Pope Francis arrived in this Amazonian city in southeast Peru, indigenous people from three countries that share the rainforest region told Catholic ......
South Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti had high hopes in 2007 when it began to develop its La Colosa open-pit gold mine in Cajamarca, a municipality in ......
Latin America is among the world’s most dangerous regions in which to campaign for environmental and land rights, and two recent murders suggest that this ......
Brazil has enacted legislation to boost the output and use of biofuels and thus reduce carbon emissions. The linchpin of the law, a carbon-credit market ......
Uruguay appears poised to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags, alarmed by the vast quantities of discarded plastic floating in its waters and causing the deaths of ......
Latin American and Caribbean nations are on the verge of signing the region’s first-ever multilateral agreement on environmental rights, following several years of talks. There’s ......
Carlos de Miguel heads the Unit of Policies for Sustainable Development at the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac). As ......