Ecuador’s cunning plan
A plan to save the rainforest in Ecuador is getting atention from the world.
Letter from Manaus
Last week I went to Manaus for a conference. It was 40 years since the first time I'd been there. Manaus then was a small town of elegant old houses dating from the rubber boom, built around the grandiose Opera House, a town of precarious shanties
The activist who did not need to queue
Cues of official delegates and dancing protesters. A summit to remember
COP15: The Other Summit
It is cold in Copenhagen, but nobody gets fooled: climate change is a reality.
El cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe
El cambio climático está afectando a América Latina. Lea cómo y qué se puede hacer para evitar el desastre.
Can Lula reinvent himself as an environmentalist?
Over the last few months President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been riding the crest of a wave: the Brazilian economy is coming through the global economic crisis relatively unscathed; under his leadership the country has gained a much more powerful
From Copenhagen to Brazil
Live link-ups with Javier Farje in Copenhagen and Jan Rocha in Brazil and panel discussions with Peter Bunyard, Sue Branford & John Hilary.
Bulletin 10 December 2009
MEXICO NEGOTIATES FUTURE OF ZELAYA ♦ ARGENTINA AND VENEZUELA REINFORCE THEIR ALLIANCE ♦ CLIMATE CHANGE: BOLIVIA SAYS NO TO CARBON TRADING ♦ BRAZIL READY FOR AGREEMENT ♦ COLOMBIA EXPECTS “AMBITIOUS TARGETS” IN COP15 &
BULLETIN 7 DECEMBER 2009
BOLIVIA: EVO MORALES RE-ELECTED ♦ BRAZIL DOES NOT BELIEVE THERE WILL BE AN AGREEMENT IN COPENHAGEN ♦ LATIN AMERICANS WORRY ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE ♦ MEXICO: BIOFUELS BASED ON ALGAE
Is Climate Change Hitting Brazil?
In recent months Brazil has suffered from a series of what used to be known as ‘unusual climatic events’ -- severe droughts in the south, flooding in the Amazon and torrential rain in the northeast. A small town in the interior of the north
