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Por Pierina Chicoma Desde muy pequeño, a Abel Cruz le tocó conocer el significado de vivir sin agua. En su natal Cusco, como en muchas zonas peruanas, la escasez de…
En Chile, el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente (MMA) puso en marcha el programa “Transitando hacia una construcción circular y descarbonizada en Chile”, que busca impulsar la economía circular, reducir emisiones…
Un nuevo relevamiento sobre compromisos climáticos provinciales en Argentina reveló que la provincia de Buenos Aires concentra el 34% de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero del país, mientras…
La Mancomunidad Sureña (Masur), que agrupa a cuatro municipios de la costa sur de Guatemala, consolidó en la última década un modelo de acción climática local que combina reforestación, educación…
La energía eólica y solar produjeron más de un tercio de la electricidad de Brasil por primer mes registrado, alcanzando una participación del 34% en agosto de 2025, según datos…
De cara a la COP30, la sociedad civil latinoamericana se organiza para que las decisiones sobre adaptación climática no queden en declaraciones técnicas, sino que respondan a las realidades de…
En plena cuenta regresiva para la COP30, jóvenes y mujeres de la Amazonía brasileña están ganando espacio en la toma de decisiones climáticas, llevando soluciones locales desde sus territorios hasta…
Warmi, a hundred-year-old spinning mill in Jujuy, Argentina, made a commitment to its community and a challenge to itself: make visible the traceability of the production process of its exclusive…
The climatic disaster that is taking place in the current 2022/23 agricultural campaign will cause a decrease in foreign currency income that will affect both productive communities and the Argentine…
Unplastify and Potenciar launched the report “Unplastifying Actors in Latin America and the Caribbean”. The objective of this report is to generate a map of actors (organizations, initiatives and/or solutions)…
Human-caused climate change made the record heat wave in northern Argentina and Paraguay in early December about 60 times more likely, according to a rapid attribution analysis by an international…
According to a study by the environmental charity EarthWatch Institute, most of the plastic that ends up in the oceans comes from rivers. As this graph from Statista shows, according…
The increase in consumption and demand for food worldwide encourages the expansion and intensification of agriculture, which often leads to an increase in deforestation and conversion of natural environments. WWF’s…
The La Niña weather phenomenon, which has a cooling effect, prevented 2022 from being the warmest year on record. The global average temperature in 2022 was around 1.15 degrees Celsius…
Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate and the extractive, wasteful and polluting linear economy is increasingly recognized as one of the main underlying causes of this crisis. Currently,…
According to the WMO we will break the threshold of 1.5º C to 1.8ºC in the next 5 years. Then intercontinental structural droughts may occur. As a consequence, between 2…
According to a WMO report, during the next 5 years the threshold of 1.5ºC will be broken. Then intercontinental structural droughts may occur and as a consequence between 2 and…
There is about a 40% chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level in at least one of the next five years – and these odds…
Unsplash/Emerson Peters / Heatwaves account for some of the deadliest disasters on record, causing suffering and displacement. The latest report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), released on Sunday, shows that…
Nick Sells / Secretary-General António Guterres attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-UN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. As “deepening divisions” threaten global peace and security, “dangerous rhetoric” is…
UNFCCC/Kiara Worth / Youth activists protest at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh demanding leaders to address ending the use of fossil fuels. Negotiations, sharing solutions aimed at curbing emissions by the…
UNICEF/Parvez Ahmad Rony / Protiva’s school in Sylhet closed due to heavy flooding in northeastern Bangladesh. Her home was also flooded. Armed with banners, picket signs, megaphones, and especially with…
UNICEF/Frank Dejongh / A group of young U-reporters in the Ivory Coast. U-Report is a social platform created by UNICEF, available via SMS, Facebook and Twitter where young people express…
UN News/Laura Quinones / People protest against fossil fuel funding during COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The first of the ‘thematic’ days kicked off on Wednesday at COP27, focused on…
World Bank/Albes Fusha / Men work on the construction of a new road in Albania. The global building and construction boom has pushed the sector’s CO2 emissions to an all-time…