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  • Food SecurityHealth & SafetySoil & Natural SequestrationSouth & Central America

    Agro-Forestry Helps Costa Rican Family Restore Their Soil, Diversify Their Farm

    July 26, 2017
     
    July 26, 2017
    A Costa Rican farm family’s 25-year effort to keep their small coffee plantation, restore the soil, and regain their health is pointing to the ...
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  • Climate Action/"Blockadia"First PeoplesHydropowerSouth & Central AmericaWater

    Banks Withdraw from the Project Berta Cáceres Gave Her Life to Stop

    June 6, 2017
     
    June 6, 2017
    Key international backers have pulled their financing out of a Honduran hydro project that was resisted by environmental activist Berta Cáceres until her murder ...
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  • Carbon-Free TransitionClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsSouth & Central America

    Nicaragua Rejected Paris as a ‘Path to Failure’, In Counterpoint to Trump

    June 5, 2017
     
    June 5, 2017
    It’s become de rigueur to snark at Donald Trump for joining Nicaragua and Syria in the very exclusive club of countries that aren’t parties ...
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  • Finance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHuman Rights & MigrationJobs & TrainingSouth & Central AmericaWaterWind

    Latin America’s Biggest Wind Farm Courts Rising Tensions

    May 16, 2017
     
    May 16, 2017
    Mitsubishi will invest US$1.2 billion to build Latin America’s biggest terrestrial wind farm in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, one of the windiest places in ...
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  • CitiesHealth & SafetySevere Storms & FloodingSouth & Central America

    Colombia Declares Emergency, Peru Mounts Rescue as Epic Flooding Continues

    April 2, 2017
     
    April 2, 2017
    Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of emergency Saturday after a torrent from three overflowing rivers swept through the small southern town ...
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  • Auto & Alternative VehiclesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsSouth & Central America

    Billionaire, Bread-Maker Team Up to Launch ‘100% Mexican EV’

    February 8, 2017
     
    February 8, 2017
    The world’s largest baker and its fourth-richest man are working together to bring a homegrown electric passenger vehicle to the streets of Mexico, where ...
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  • Climate & SocietyCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDrought, Famine & WildfiresJurisdictionsSouth & Central America

    Chile Receives International Aid as Wildfires Kill 11, Burn 400,000 Hectares

    February 3, 2017
     
    February 3, 2017
    Chile has received an infusion of emergency financial aid, firefighters, and equipment to stem at least 58 wildfires that were burning as of January ...
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  • Auto & Alternative VehiclesCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsSouth & Central AmericaTransit

    Costa Rica’s Gasoline Demand Rises Despite Renewable Power Milestone

    January 10, 2017
     
    January 10, 2017
    There was an unfortunate back story to last week’s reports that Costa Rica is producing 98% of its electricity from renewables: the transportation sector ...
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  • Climate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsInternational Security & WarJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolarSouth & Central AmericaUnited States

    Build That (Solar) Wall, Mr. Trump!

    January 4, 2017
     
    January 4, 2017
    Two prominent Mexican academics have a response to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall along America’s southern border: Bring it on! ...
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  • Climate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationFirst PeoplesJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsSouth & Central AmericaWater

    Loss of a Bolivian Lake Destroys Culture, Identity

    July 14, 2016
     
    July 14, 2016
    Climate change and human demands have emptied a lake in Bolivia’s high desert—and with it much of the meaning of life for the Indigenous ...
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  • Climate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDrought, Famine & WildfiresElectricity GridHydropowerJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySouth & Central America

    Venezuela Denies Drought-Starved Grid Near ‘Collapse’

    March 23, 2016
     
    March 23, 2016
    Just four metres of water depth behind Venezuela’s Guri Dam stand between the troubled, oil-rich country and the “collapse” of its power grid, prompting ...
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  • Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"First PeoplesHydropowerJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySouth & Central America

    Honduran Campaigner Berta Cáceres Murdered in Fight Against Agua Zarca Hydro Project

    March 9, 2016
     
    March 9, 2016
    A wave of international outrage and protests was triggered last week after Honduran Indigenous and environmental rights campaigner Berta Cáceres was shot dead in ...
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  • Climate & SocietyFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySouth & Central AmericaWind

    Mexican Wind Project Harms Indigenous Communities, Damages the Environment

    March 2, 2016
     
    March 2, 2016
    Mexico’s development of a natural “wind tunnel” between the Atlantic and Pacific for power generation is injuring indigenous communities and damaging the environment, critics ...
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  • Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridGeothermalJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolarSouth & Central AmericaWind

    Nicaragua Aims for 90% Renewables by 2020

    January 11, 2016
     
    January 11, 2016
    Nicaragua expects to produce 75% of its energy from renewable sources by 2017 and 90% by 2020, relying on strong winds, bright sunshine, and ...
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  • BrazilClimate & SocietyJurisdictionsSevere Storms & FloodingSouth & Central America

    South American Flooding Forces 160,000 to Evacuate

    January 4, 2016
     
    January 4, 2016
    Severe flooding brought on by El Niño-related storms forced as many as 160,000 people out of their homes in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil ...
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ICYMI

  • Human Rights & MigrationHydropowerICYMISouth & Central America

    Exposé Links Honduran Dam Execs to Berta Cáceres Assassination

    November 2, 2017
     
    November 2, 2017
  • Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsICYMIMiddle EastSouth & Central AmericaUnited States

    Nicaragua Joins Paris Deal, Leaves U.S., Syria as Outliers

    October 24, 2017
     
    October 24, 2017
  • General RenewablesICYMISouth & Central America

    Argentine Renewables Tender Produces 9.4 GW in Bids

    October 22, 2017
     
    October 22, 2017
  • ICYMIOil & GasSouth & Central America

    Exxon Oil Discovery ‘Puts Guyana on Fossils’ Map’

    October 19, 2017
     
    October 19, 2017
  • Finance & InvestmentICYMIOil & GasSouth & Central AmericaUnited States

    U.S. Refiner Citgo in Play as Venezuela Faces Debt Deadline

    October 3, 2017
     
    October 3, 2017
  • ICYMIInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesMiddle EastOil & GasSouth & Central America

    Citibank Predicts Oil Supply Squeeze, Price Spike for 2018

    September 26, 2017
     
    September 26, 2017
  • Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsICYMIMiddle EastSouth & Central AmericaUnited States

    Nicaragua to Sign Paris, Leaving U.S. and Syria as Sole Holdouts

    September 21, 2017
     
    September 21, 2017
  • Climate Impacts & AdaptationICYMISouth & Central AmericaWater

    Farmland Loss, Bee Decline Threaten Coffee in Warming Climate

    September 14, 2017
     
    September 14, 2017
  • Climate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresHeat & TemperatureICYMISouth & Central America

    Climate-Driven Heat, Drought Turn Bolivian Community Into Ghost Town

    August 27, 2017
     
    August 27, 2017
  • Electricity GridFinance & InvestmentGeneral RenewablesICYMISolarSouth & Central AmericaWind

    Slow Infrastructure Development Bogs Down Argentine Renewables

    August 27, 2017
     
    August 27, 2017
  • Air & MarineForests & DeforestationICYMISouth & Central America

    Aviation Offsets Could Pay Dividends for Colombia’s Forests

    August 16, 2017
     
    August 16, 2017
  • Climate Impacts & AdaptationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseICYMISouth & Central America

    Vanishing Glaciers Cause Havoc in Peru

    August 8, 2017
     
    August 8, 2017
  • Human Rights & MigrationICYMISolarSouth & Central America

    Low-Income Argentine Families Build Their Own Solar Water Heaters

    June 29, 2017
     
    June 29, 2017
  • BrazilCarbon-Free TransitionFinance & InvestmentGeneral RenewablesICYMISouth & Central America

    Latin America Gears Up for Clean Energy Boom

    May 25, 2017
     
    May 25, 2017
  • Health & SafetyICYMIOil & GasSouth & Central AmericaWater

    Infrastructure Leaks Stain, Delay Venezuela Shipments

    April 18, 2017
     
    April 18, 2017
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