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Amerikas

AUSWIRKUNGEN

‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

Experts say brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territory

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Landmark deal to share Chile’s lithium windfall fractures Indigenous communities

A pioneering accord meant to give Indigenous communities more of a say over lithium mining has left people in the Atacama desert divided like never before

ANTI-KLIMA

The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts

As the country moves to intensify mining and oil operations, environmental and Indigenous leaders’ bank accounts are being frozen or closed. Such “debanking” cuts them off from financial support and paralyzes their work.

TECH. & ENERGIE

* VENEZUELA * There is hope for the future – and it isn’t based on oil

Developing Venezuela’s untapped renewables potential would be a massive undertaking, but an energy transition is the best way for the country to achieve stability and break oil-driven cycles of boom and bust

TECH. & ENERGIE

US sanctions, power cuts, climate crisis: why Cuba is betting on renewables

With Trump blocking Venezuelan oil imports and old power plants breaking down, the island – with Chinese help – is turning to solar and wind to bolster its fragile energy system

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

This Hillside City in South America Rebuilt Itself Around Nature — and Got Healthier

In Loja, Ecuador, creating a unified system that connects nature with city infrastructure not only created green spaces for its residents, but made both the city and its citizens healthier.

RECHT

* BONAIRE RULING * Dutch government discriminated against Bonaire islanders over climate adaptation

Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis

RECHT

* BONAIRE-URTEIL * Durch Klagen Klimaschutz erzwingen?

Die Niederlande haben laut dem Urteil die Einwohner seiner Karibikinsel Bonaire nicht genügend vor den Folgen des Klimawandels geschützt. Die Richter in Den Haag gaben damit einer Klage der Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace recht. – NANO – Mit Prof. Helen Keller, Universität Zürich

RECHT

Urteil: Niederlande müssen Karibik-Insel vor Klimawandel schützen

Die Niederlande haben in einem Klimaverfahren eine schwere Schlappe erlitten. Der Staat hat nach dem Urteil die Einwohner seiner Karibikinsel Bonaire nicht genügend vor den Folgen des Klimawandels geschützt.

ANTI-KLIMA

* EXTRÊME FROID AUX ÉTATS-UNIS * La vague de froid aux Etats-Unis ne remet pas en cause le changement climatique

La terrible tempête hivernale qui s’est abattue sur les Etats-Unis ne constitue pas une preuve de l’inexistence du réchauffement, comme le suggère le président américain. Elle pourrait au contraire avoir été favorisée par le dérèglement du climat

ANTI-KLIMA AUSWIRKUNGEN

* USA | WINTER STORM * Trump says the big US winter storm is proof of climate hoax – here’s why he’s wrong

US president asks ‘whatever happened to global warming?’ Well, it could be making our winter storms worse

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* PATAGONIA WILDFIRES * ‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop

Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* USA | WINTER STORM * Yes, climate change can supercharge a winter storm. Here’s how.

The jet stream, a warming Arctic, and loads of atmospheric moisture have contributed to an epic storm impacting 230 million people.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* USA | WINTER STORM * Is climate change weakening the polar vortex?

Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Des incendies qui ravagent le sud du Chili font au moins 20 morts

De gigantesques feux de forêt ont fait 20 morts dans le sud du Chili. Mardi, au quatrième jour d'incendies, les conditions météorologiques plus favorables ont offert dans la nuit un répit aux secours mobilisés.

AUSWIRKUNGEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

‘We’re in danger of extinction’: can Bolivia’s ‘water people’ survive a rising tide of salt and migration?

The Uru Chipaya, one of South America’s most ancient civilisations, are battling drought, salinity and an exodus of their people as the climate crisis wreaks havoc on their land

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Patagonia Is Burning

Heat, drought and high winds exacerbated deadly blazes in Chile this weekend and stoked fires that continue to smolder in Argentina.

POLITIK

* USA | VENEZUELA INVASION * Venezuela’s Gas: The World’s Most Expensive Bonfire

DEEP DIVE: As the world fixates on oil, Venezuela burns $1.4bn of gas — while sitting on an untouched methane empire that could redraw regional power

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* INCENDIES * En Patagonie, un incendie a ravagé 5500 hectares et reste hors de contrôle

Moins d’un an après les pires feux enregistrés dans la région en trois décennies, la Patagonie argentine est de nouveau ravagée par les flammes

URSACHEN

* USA | VENEZUELA INVASION * Plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget

Exclusive: ClimatePartner analysis shows how move would risk plunging Earth further into climate catastrophe

RECHT

* USA | VENEZUELA INVASION * Fight Over Venezuelan Oil Highlights Shadowy International Legal System

Trump said the socialist government “stole” from American oil companies. Those firms have been seeking billions in compensation through a controversial arbitration system.

POLITIK

* USA | VENEZUELA INVASION * How Chevron played the long game in Venezuela

Chevron met with Trump and spent millions lobbying him to continue operating in Venezuela. Now it is uniquely positioned to profit from that.

POLITIK

A major agreement to protect the Amazon is falling apart after 20 years

Amid changing political headwinds, the moratorium on soy-driven deforestation is in danger. What now?

POLITIK

* USA | VENEZUELA INVASION * Trump’s reckless grab for power, riches, and oil in Venezuela

Who stands to profit, and who stands to pay? “Ten years from now, twenty years from now, you will see; oil will bring us ruin. Oil is the Devil's excrement" – Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso…

POLITIK

* USA | VENEZUELA INVASION * Democrats Seek Answers About Oil Industry’s Knowledge of Venezuela Operation

Democrats demanded information from seven top U.S. oil companies about any meetings with the Trump administration regarding plans to control Venezuela’s oil industry.

POLITIK

* US-ANGRIFF AUF VENEZUELA * Drill, baby, drill in Venezuela

US-Präsident Donald Trump versucht offenbar, sich die fossilen Reserven des südamerikanischen Landes unter den Nagel zu reißen – eine Attacke auch aufs Klima.

POLITIK

* US-ANGRIFF AUF VENEZUELA * Trumps letzte Ölung

Dass der US-Präsident seinen Venezuela-Coup nicht mit dem Parlament, sondern mit den Ölkonzernen besprach, ist ein weiteres Argument für die Energiewende.

POLITIK

* US ASSAULT ON VENEZUELA * Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela

The second-largest U.S. oil company, which kept pumping oil in the country after others left, could find it relatively easy to expand its operations if the political conditions there improve.

EMPFOHLEN URSACHEN

* US ASSAULT ON VENEZUELA * Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate

‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say

RECHT

In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins

The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the government to prove construction won’t drive the species to extinction.

POLITIK

* US ASSAULT ON VENEZUELA * Trump says he’ll unleash Venezuela’s oil. But who wants it?

As oil prices fall and demand nears a peak, exploiting Venezuela’s heavy crude reserves won’t be as easy as Trump thinks.

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

* US ASSAULT ON VENEZUELA * Venezuela’s ‘Dirty’ Oil and the Environment: Three Things to Know

Most of the reserves in the country are extra-heavy oil that’s tough to extract and generates more greenhouse gases.

POLITIK

* US ASSAULT ON VENEZUELA * The Venezuelan Oil Industry Trump Is Planning to Revive

Venezuela claims to have more than 300 billion barrels in the ground, but it is only producing about one million barrels a day.

POLITIK

* US ASSAULT ON VENEZUELA * Trump Long Wanted to ‘Take the Oil.’ He Says He’ll Do It in Venezuela.

The White House had pointed to drug trafficking and migration as reasons to crack down on Nicolás Maduro. But oil emerged as central to President Trump.

POLITIK

* US ASSAULT ON VENEZUELA * Just possibly it’s the oil?

A solar panel is the new peace sign. By Bill McKibben

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Caraïbes: les récifs coralliens réduits de moitié depuis 1980

La couverture en coraux durs dans les Caraïbes a diminué de 48% entre 1980 et 2024, indique un rapport d'un réseau mondial de surveillance des récifs coralliens diffusé mardi par la préfecture de Guadeloupe.

EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers

Low-cost tech and joined-up funding have reduced illegal logging, mining and poaching in the Darién Gap – it’s a success story that could stop deforestation worldwide

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of emotional devastation across Jamaica

Experts are calling for the integration of mental health into climate-disaster policy in the Caribbean as studies show that PTSD risks increase after hurricanes and displacement

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Hurrikane auf dem Atlantik: Weniger, dafür viel heftiger – eine Hurrikansaison als Blaupause für die Zukunft?

Die Zeit der Tropenstürme auf dem Atlantik geht in diesen Tagen zu Ende. Die Saison war geprägt von Extremen – und könnte wegweisend sein für die Zukunft.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Shifting Climate Alters Pattern of Atlantic’s Giant Seaweed Blobs

Blooms of yellowish-brown seaweed along the Equator are breaking records and defiling beaches, while a centuries-old patch farther north is disappearing.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Caribbean reefs have lost 48% of hard coral since 1980, study finds

‘Destructive’ marine heatwaves driving loss of microalgae that feed coral, says Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network

URSACHEN

Einst flog er Goldgräber in den Regen­wald, nun ist er Zeuge der Zerstörung im Amazonas

Während die Weltgemeinschaft um minimalste Klimaziele ringt, sieht Fernando Galvão Bezerra dem Regenwald beim Sterben zu. Ein Flug über menschengemachte Abgründe.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

‘Chunks of earth just disappear’: life on a collapsing island. Podcast

The Guardian reporter Leyland Cecco recounts a recent trip to Qikiqtaruk off the coast of Canada’s Yukon territory, where he saw first hand how indigenous groups and scientists are reckoning with an ecosystem collapsing into the sea.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Wie das Flussdelta des Mississippi untergeht

An der Küste des US-Bundesstaats Louisiana geht das Land unter. Der Mississippi könnte helfen, es teilweise zu erhalten.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* HURRICANE MELISSA * What will it take to rebuild Jamaica’s food system?

For farmers in the nation's breadbasket, surviving this storm is no guarantee against the next one.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

* COP30 | BRÉSIL * Le combat des Indiens Mura en Amazonie: «Que font ceux qui sont responsables de la protection de notre planète?»

Dans l’Etat d’Amazonas, au sud de Manaus, les Indiens Mura se battent pour maintenir un mode de vie traditionnel dans un environnement toujours plus menacé. Organisateur cette année de la COP30 sur le climat, le Brésil veut mettre l’accent sur la protection des forêts tropicales

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* HURRICANE MELISSA * No doubt about it: Climate change made Melissa way worse

An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Des mégafeux américains qui polluent jusqu’en Europe

Les incendies massifs qui brûlent chaque année des millions d’hectares de forêt en Amérique du Nord ont des répercussions de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique. Panaches de fumée et polluants divers sont

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* HURRIKAN MELISSA * Rekord-Stürme und der Klimawandel: Die Physik hinter «Melissa»

Hurrikan «Melissa» verwüstet die Karibik – und gerade Stürme wie «Melissa» werden durch den Klimawandel häufiger.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Marine heatwave over Pacific Ocean could lead to flooding in north-west

Severe ‘blob’ or marine heatwave can lead to increased inundation and wintery weather in eastern North America

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* HURRICANE MELISSA * Melissa hits Cuba after turning Jamaica into ‘disaster area’

Most intense tropical cyclone to hit Jamaica in nearly two centuries leaves trail of devastation in its wake

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* OURAGAN MELISSA * Melissa touche Cuba avec des vents de 195 km/h

L'ouragan Melissa, rétrogradé en catégorie 3, a touché l'île de Cuba mercredi matin après avoir durement frappé la Jamaïque, qualifiée de "zone sinistrée" par les autorités, a indiqué le Centre national américain des ouragans (NHC).

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* HURRIKAN MELISSA * «Der Hurrikan konnte das wärmste zurzeit verfügbare Meerwasser nutzen»

Er zählt zu den stärksten jemals verzeichneten Stürmen auf dem Atlanik. Gemäss Experte Matt Lanza profitierte Melissa vom warmen Karibikwasser und einer speziellen Wetterkonstellation.

POLITIK

* BRASILIEN * Lulas Herzstück droht der Infarkt

Nach seiner Wiederwahl versprach Lula da Silva, Klimaschutz zum Herzstück der brasilianischen Politik zu machen. Drei Jahre später hat sein Image gelitten.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* HURRICANE MELISSA * Climate Factors Make Jamaica Especially Vulnerable

More frequent and intense storms, sea-level rise and extensive rainfall fueled by climate change mean the island nation is likely to be hit especially hard by this week’s storm.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* HURRICANE MELISSA * ‘Storm of the century’ hits Jamaica and heads for Cuba

Minister says parish of St Elizabeth is ‘under water’ and that families were trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western Jamaica

POLITIK

Bolivia’s shift to the right renews ambition to mine vast lithium reserves

The election of a centre-right president after 20 years of socialist rule could open up the nation's lithium reserves to foreign investment

AUSWIRKUNGEN

What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them “shocked” – and devastated

Two incredibly valuable animals are now “functionally extinct” in Florida. That should alarm all of us.

URSACHEN

Ahead of COP30, Brazil grants Petrobras a licence to drill for oil in Amazon region

Brazil has authorised Petrobras to explore for oil off the Amazon coast, a move campaigners say undermines global climate goals

POLITIK

How Caribbean states are shifting climate legislation

The Caribbean region is among the most vulnerable to climate change. Our research suggests that Caribbean countries are outpacing other regions in terms of the scope and ambition of their climate laws. This legislation has the potential to serve as a model for climate-vulnerable nations worldwide.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Yasuní: Horizons and Interstices in Social Imagination

Yasuní has become an emblematic place and moment where the multiple crises of our time converge: climatic, ecological, economic, and political. It is a historical knot that concentrates the global contradictions between extractivism and sustainability, between capital expansion and the defense of life.

RECHT

Unusual Climate Case Accusing Oil Giants of Racketeering Is Dismissed

Citing laws more commonly used against organized crime, the lawsuit argued that fossil fuel companies were responsible for devastating hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

La déforestation modifie le climat en Amazonie, rapprochant la région de son point de bascule

La réduction de la couverture forestière dans le bassin amazonien y entraîne une forte baisse des précipitations. Cela pourrait mettre en péril l’équilibre de la forêt tropicale, montrent des chercheurs brésiliens, à deux mois de la COP30 qui se tiendra à Belém

URSACHEN

Poor Amazon Rains Linked to Brazil Deforestation

Deforestation is playing a greater role than researchers expected, according to a new study.

EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow

Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Rekordfeuer von Spanien bis Kanada

Die Waldbrände auf der Nordhalbkugel erreichen teils historische Dimensionen. Die Feuer werden vom Klimawandel verstärkt und treiben ihn zugleich weiter an.

URSACHEN

Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year

Warming driven by deforestation caused an extra 28,000 heat-related deaths per year across Africa, South America and Asia over 2001-20, new research finds.

RECHT

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person

The move by the Colorado River Indian Tribes in Arizona and California would give rights of nature to the water, marking a historic first.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* WILDFIRES * Canada’s Wildfire Season Is One of Its Worst Ever, and It’s Not Over Yet

Thousands have been evacuated as quick moving wildfires burn in Eastern Canada.

EMPFOHLEN MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

* BARBADOS * Wie eine kleine Insel die Welt­wirtschaft revolutionieren will

Der Karibik droht der Kollaps, doch jetzt zetteln eine Frau und ein Mann eine globale Revolution an. Können sie das schaffen?

URSACHEN

Nature Crime Fuels Deforestation in the Amazon

Organized crime has long been an overlooked but growing driver of deforestation in the Amazon — one that’s pushing into new territories.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

‘It can’t withstand the heat’: fears ‘stable’ Patagonia glacier in irreversible decline

Scientists say Perito Moreno, which for decades defied trend of glacial retreat, now rapidly losing mass

EMPFOHLEN RECHT

Top Latin American court urges «control» of fossil fuels in climate ruling

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has urged states to regulate fossil fuel extraction and exploration, in a landmark ruling for climate law.

POLITIK

Canada races to build icebreakers amid melting ice and geopolitical tensions

In an Arctic reshaped by the climate crisis, less ice really means more as countries face risks in push for more ships

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Wiederaufforstung in Mexiko: Umweltschutz mit Machtanspruch

Mexikos Regierung propagiert mit «Sembrando Vida» ein Wiederaufforstungsprogramm, das ökologisch wie sozial vorbildlich sein soll. Doch ausgerechnet linke Aktivist:innen und Menschenrechtsorganisationen kritisieren das Projekt.

AUSWIRKUNGEN EMPFOHLEN

‘It looks more likely with each day we burn fossil fuels’: polar scientist on Antarctic tipping points

Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend

URSACHEN

Scientists’ Letter Urges Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling

The urgent message was delivered to Brazilian officials during annual U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, and includes new warnings about an Amazon rainforest tipping point.

BEWEGUNG

Brazilian activists vow to fight Amazon oil auction in court

Months before hosting COP30, Brazil auctioned 47 oil and gas blocks in the Amazon. Activitsts have vowed to challenge the process in court.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* USA | HEAT * Tens of millions swelter as heatwave blankets the central and eastern US

Several cities are under extreme heat warnings as high temperatures and humidity grip parts of the country

BÜCHER

How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored

A new book traces how the American prairie was nearly destroyed and why its return is so necessary for our future.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

California’s Wildfires Could Be Brutal This Summer

Experts say there could be more large wildfires than usual this year. Here’s why.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Uruguay: Energiewende als nationales Erfolgsmodell

Der südamerikanische Staat Uruguay hat seine Stromversorgung in wenigen Jahren auf Wind-, Wasser- und Sonnenenergie umgestellt.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* FEUX CANADA * Les habitants d’Ontario et de Colombie britannique évacués

Plus de 220 incendies sont toujours actifs au Canada – dont celui de Sandy Lake qui progresse rapidement. Depuis dimanche, l'armée canadienne a installé un pont aérien destiné à évacuer des communautés autochtones du nord de l'Ontario

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* FEUX CANADA * Après les fumées des incendies canadiens, au tour des poussières sahariennes de voiler le ciel suisse

Alors que les vents peinent à balayer les particules fines issues du Canada, un changement de masse d’air provenant du sud apportera jeudi des poussières du Sahara en haute altitude. Le ciel restera laiteux en Suisse jusqu’à dimanche

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Cyclones sur l’Atlantique : nouvelle saison active en vue

A l’instar des évènements de l’année passée, la saison cyclonique 2025 devrait être marquée par une activité supérieure à la moyenne sur l’Atlantique-Nord. La National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) prévoit entre 3 et 5 ouragans majeurs.

URSACHEN

Global forest loss hits “frightening” record high with climate-fuelled fires

Brazil and Bolivia led forest destruction in 2024 as drought worsened fires and land was cleared for large-scale agriculture and cattle-farming

AUSWIRKUNGEN

‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C

Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK. MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

How memories of clean water, frogs and fresh air could help save Rio’s favelas from future climate disaster

A new exhibition in the Brazilian city looks at how water, the environment and extreme weather is interwoven with personal stories from 10 marginalised communities

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Texas swelters as record-breaking heatwave sweeps across state

Record-high heat so early in the season means state has been hotter than Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Le Canada connaît un début de saison des feux meurtrier

Les deux corps ont été retrouvés dans le hameau de Lac-du-Bonnet, dans la province du Manitoba (centre), où 1000 habitants ont dû être évacués en urgence ces dernières heures.

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Voices of the Amazon: Chumpi Washikiat

The Achuar people first came into contact with the outside world sixty years ago. Since then, they have mostly been left in peace, able to take what they want from the modern world and leave the rest. That’s changing now. Their territory is under threat by careerist politicians within their own community, by other indigenous nations whose populations have exponentially increased thanks to contact with fossil fuels, and by industry who, every year, is figuring out how to penetrate even deeper into the forest.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Coming this summer: Record-breaking heat and plenty of hurricanes

Forecasters are predicting higher temperatures across the U.S. and up to 10 hurricanes. Cutting federal programs could leave people even more vulnerable.

POLITIK

* CANADA ELECTIONS * Climate Change, Once a Big Issue, Fades From Canada’s Election

Even though Liberal candidate Mark Carney has a lengthy climate policy résumé, Trump’s threats have nearly drowned the issue out of the campaign.

TECH. & ENERGIE

«China investiert jetzt in Lateinamerikas Energiewende»

Chinesische Unternehmen engagieren sich von Argentinien bis Venezuela zunehmend im Greentech-Sektor, sagt Parsifal D'Sola, Gründer einer Stiftung für chinesisch-lateinamerikanische Beziehungen in Bogotá. Um Technologietransfer gehe es dabei nicht. Teil 14 der Serie.

ANTI-KLIMA KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

ExxonMobil helps Amazon nation Guyana build ‘petrostate’, while people stay poor

Guyana’s rapid ascent to major oil producer has come at a steep price: rising inequality, weakened environmental regulations and unchecked gas flaring

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

How the renewable bonanza is impacting Colombia’s largest indigenous population

For years, colonists extracted coal from the Wayuu people's territory. Now it's been marked as the heart of Colombia's energy transition

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Is Bolivia’s $1.2 Billion Deal to Protect Its Forests a Climate Boon—or a False Solution?

The South American nation has partnered with an American company to sell “carbon securities” under Paris Agreement rules. Experts say the approach could prompt a global wave of corporate greenwashing.