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Environment

'Green favela' fights to live sustainably in Brazil

10-03-2020 21:40 On the outskirts of São Paulo, a concrete jungle of 12 million people, the impoverished community of Vila Nova Esperanca is fighting to be a model of sustainable living.

Climate Crisis

City of Buenos Aires recognised by NGO for leadership on climate climate

27-02-2020 12:18 Carbon Disclosure Project non-profit says Buenos Aires is one of four Latin American cities that are leading the way in efforts to tackle climate change.

Environment

Solar schooling: City school begins generating electricity for its neighbours

26-02-2020 15:53 Primary school in Villa Devoto installs 200 solar panels on its roof – enough to supply power to its buildings and to the wider neighbourhood.

by Claudio Corsalini

Bloomberg

Green Bonds are selling like ‘ice cream’ – Latin America wants in

24-02-2020 15:39 At least five Latin American governments and several companies are considering debt sales to fund environmentally friendly projects in what is expected to be the region’s most active year for issuance of so-called green bonds since 2017.

Climate Change

Antarctica likely breaks heat record at over 18 degrees Celsius

14-02-2020 12:01 The reading was taken last Thursday at an Argentine research base, but still needs to be verified by the World Meteorological Organization.

ENVIRONMENT

Greta Thunberg puts Africa's climate activists in media spotlight

31-01-2020 14:14 The young Swedish activist is calling for media visibility for Africa's environmental struggle, while a controversy erupted in Davos after Ugandan Vanessa Nakate was excluded from a photo of climate activists taken by a news agency.

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

Latin America’s trash brims with hidden cash

24-01-2020 13:42 "Where there’s waste, there’s also opportunity. Latin Americans, belatedly, seem to be catching on," writes Marc Margolis.

by Mac Margolis

ENVIRONMENT

Climate crisis spawns tsunami of greenwashing

22-01-2020 16:52 From big tech to big oil, global corporations are churning out climate action plans to reduce carbon footprints – but many of their ambitious pledges are more greenwashing than green, experts caution.

world

Australia to pay 'whatever it takes' to fight wildfires

07-01-2020 12:38 Firefighters raced to contain massive bushfires in southeastern Australia Tuesday, taking advantage of a brief drop in temperatures and some much-needed rainfall before another heatwave strikes later this week.

AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRES

Australian bushfire cloud visible in Chile and Argentina

06-01-2020 19:33 The cloud of smoke caused by raging bushfires in Australia has been spotted more than 12,000 kilometres (7,400 miles) away in Chile and Argentina, weather authorities said on Monday.

A YEAR IN REVIEW

2019 – the year the world woke up to the climate emergency?

28-12-2019 09:44 Schoolchildren skipping class to strike, protests bringing city centres to a standstill – armed with dire warnings from scientists, people around the world dragged the climate emergency into the mainstream in 2019.

Jorge Difonso interview

'With this decision, Mendoza has regressed 12 years,' says co-author of Law 7722

24-12-2019 09:51 Lawyer and Cambia Mendoza provincial deputy Jorge Difonso on why protesters in Mendoza are taking to the streets in rejection of alterations made to legislation which restricted the use of dangerous chemicals in mining operations.

by Isabelle Margulies

Travel & tourism

Antarctica tourism: the quest for Earth's vulnerable extremes

13-12-2019 07:03 New luxurious adventure excursions give their guests an opportunity to get up close and personal with quickly-eroding natural beauty, but is the very presence of humans there contributing to the destruction of this frozen wondrous landscape?

COP 25 climate summit

Macri: 'Electricity production will be be greenhouse gas free by 2040'

03-12-2019 14:21 President kicks off his last foreign trip as head of state in Madrid at the UN Climate Change Conference, where he meets with world leaders and talks renewable energy.

Transition 2019

Macri schedules trips to Spain and Brazil before leaving office

14-11-2019 12:46 Appointments for outgoing president’s final weeks in office includes two international summits.

ENVIRONMENT

Goat farmers at climate change frontline in Argentina's wine belt

06-11-2019 16:48 Goat breeders scattered along the Andes foothills on the frontline of climate change, where conditions force them to take their herds higher up the mountains every year in order to graze.

Climate Change Protests

Jane Fonda arrested for civil disobedience during climate change march

29-10-2019 17:14 A half-century after throwing her attention-getting celebrity status into Vietnam War protests, Fonda is now doing the same in a U.S. climate movement where the average age is 18.“My only issue with being arrested, for me, is being old,” joked Fonda.

EDITORIAL

Climate changing faster than politicians

19-10-2019 13:49 If climate change (spotlighted as the “defining issue of our times”) clearly topped the agenda at last month’s United Nations General Assembly, it is being given extremely short shrift at tomorrow’s presidential debate.

by Eugenia Iglesias

VEGETARIANISM

Vegetarians gaining ground in carnivorous Argentina

19-10-2019 09:35 Whisper it: Increasing numbers of young Argentines are turning their back on meat and keeping it green.

GUEST VOICE

Ciimate change: An unstoppable movement takes hold

19-10-2019 09:17 On the eve of the September UN Climate Action Summit, young women and men around the world mobilised by the millions and told global leaders: “You are failing us.”

by UN Secretary General António Guterres

ENVIROMENT

Patagonia – a reservoir of fossils, oil and wind worth their weight in gold

19-10-2019 09:03 Alongside Vaca Muerta, one of the biggest deposits of unconventional oil and gas in the world, Argentina also houses its “Vaca Muerta of wind” down south, according to experts.

GUEST COLUMN

Anger and environmental idealism

19-10-2019 08:30 The thrust of our political, economic and environmental systems must be urgently changed because their divergence is catastrophic.

by Ricardo Lorenzetti

ENVIRONMENT

Environment drops off radar after four years of contradictions

19-10-2019 08:09 Experts say the Macri administration is trying to have it both ways when it comes to environmental policies. And worryingly, the outlook doesn’t look much better under a potential government led by Alberto Fernández.

by Fermin Koop

Economy

How can Argentina achieve sustainable economic growth?

18-10-2019 23:09 Ambassadors from four Nordic countries — Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden — gathered with business executives and government officials Friday to discuss how Argentina can achieve the lofty goals set by the United Nations on sustainable development.

CLIMATE PROTESTS

Global climate 'rebellion' sees mass arrests and blocked roads

08-10-2019 10:12 Climate protesters from Sydney to New York to Buenos Aires blocked roads Monday, sparking hundreds of arrests, as two weeks of civil disobedience demanding immediate action to save the Earth from "extinction" kicked off.

climate change

Climate emergency threatens Latin America’s oceans and glaciers

28-09-2019 04:15 Major new IPCC oceans report warns of big impacts of global heating and urges quick emissions cuts.

by Fermin Koop

climate change

Thousands protest in capital as part of global #FridaysForFuture movement

28-09-2019 02:59 Apart from Buenos Aires, other major urban centres including Córdoba, Mar del Plata, Rosario, La Plata, Bahía Blanca, Neuquén, Bariloche, Salta, and San Luis held marches.

by Maria Gracia Santillana

Climate Change

Scientists brave crisis to continue research at Venezuela's last glacier

24-09-2019 18:29 The rapid pace of glacial retreat over the past century and a half, accelerated by human activities and burning of fossil fuels, creates new urgency for scientists to understand how freshly exposed rock forms new soil and eventually new ecosystems.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Young climate activists file UN complaint against Argentina, four other nations

23-09-2019 17:33 Complaint by 16 young climate activists, led by Greta Thunberg, accuses Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey of failing to uphold their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, signed 30 years ago.

UNITED NATIONS

'How dare you!' – Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg slams world leaders

23-09-2019 15:06 Thunberg, who travelled from Europe to New York for the summit on a zero-emissions sailboat, said she should be in school in her native Sweden rather than at the UN telling world leaders what to do to address climate change.

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Argentine climate activist makes waves at UN climate summit

23-09-2019 14:50 From the streets to the summit: local activist 19-year-old Bruno Rodríguez among the young climate leaders mobilising in New York City for climate summit ahead of UN General Assembly.

BLOOMBERG OPINION

The massive cost of not adapting to climate change

13-09-2019 12:11 The world must invest $1.8 trillion by 2030 to prepare for the effects of global warming. A new report said the payoff could be four times that.

ENVIRONMENT

Chilean Patagonia: an open-air lab to study climate change

04-09-2019 12:50 In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, scientists are studying whales, dolphins and algae in order to help predict how climate change will affect the world's oceans.

ENVIRONMENT

Australian government agency lowers Great Barrier Reef outlook to 'very poor'

30-08-2019 12:26 The government agency that manages Australia's Great Barrier Reef has downgraded its outlook for the corals' condition from "poor" to "very poor" due to warming oceans.

AMAZON AFLAME

Demonstrators rally outside Brazilian Embassy as Amazon smoke reaches Argentina

23-08-2019 18:23 Macri offers support to Bolsonaro as environmental catastrophe continues.

AMAZON IN FLAMES

Ireland may withold EU-Mercosur deal support over Amazon fires

23-08-2019 14:03 "There is no way that Ireland will vote for the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement if Brazil does not honour its environmental commitments," says Prime Minister Leo Varadkar

OPINION

Leonid Bershidsky: The EU can push Bolsonaro to save the Amazon

23-08-2019 13:59 It’s appropriate for Macron, Merkel and other European leaders to reconsider the Mercosur trade agreement in response to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s behaviour.

DEAL IN DOUBT

Macron: France won't back EU-Mercosur deal over Bolsonaro's climate 'lies'

23-08-2019 10:19 Outraged over the Amazon fires, French president brands Brazilian counterpart a liar and threatens to block EU-Mercosur trade deal "under these conditions."

Climate Crisis

Earth's future is being written in fast-melting Greenland

22-08-2019 15:01 Summer this year is hitting Greenland hard with record-shattering heat and extreme melt. By the end of the summer, about 440 billion tons of ice — maybe more — will have melted or calved off Greenland's giant ice sheet, scientists estimate.

BLOOMBERG – FEATURE

Chile's glaciers may have a bigger problem than climate change

15-08-2019 10:34 Chile has one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water outside the north and south poles, but the abundant glaciers that are the source of that precious commodity are melting fast. That’s not just an ecological disaster in the making – it’s rapidly becoming an economic and political dilemma for the government of Latin America’s richest nation.

Climate Crisis

UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future

08-08-2019 13:22 Report states human land use will trigger cycle of scarcer of more expensive food.

ENVIRONMENT

Environmental activism on rise in Argentina amid climate emergency

03-08-2019 11:30 Citizens across the globe are now taking action, asking governments and companies to step up to the plate on climate change. Argentina is no exception.

by Fermin Koop

ENVIRONMENT

Chile's Navy confirms diesel oil spill of 40,000 litres in Patagonia

29-07-2019 14:19 Navy says it has deployed ships to Guarello island to control damage from the spill, and that an investigation had been launched.

FLOODING

Over 3,000 people evacuated in Uruguay and Entre Río province

18-06-2019 14:03 Widespread flooding in the region forces hundreds of families from their homes just days after historic blackout.

SCIENCE

Prominent Argentine biologist wins prestigious prize for scientific research

05-06-2019 17:03 Sandra Myrna Díaz, who graduated in Biology at the National University of Cordoba and specialises in botany, recognised for pioneering work on how biodiversity can counter climate change.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate activists call for action in Latin America

27-05-2019 15:43 Climate change activists in Latin America rallied for action on global warming this weekend, heeding a call by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to hold demonstrations across the world.

TORRENTIAL FLOODING

Devastating floods to shave up to US$2 billion off GDP

17-01-2019 18:30 Heavy rains could keep coming for weeks, with thousands having already been displaced by devastating flooding.

CLIMATE CHANGE

The knife-edge path our world is on could lead to disaster in just 11 years

20-10-2018 08:43 The story is not the same this time around. Let’s just say: this is serious.

by Andrew Graham-Yooll

CLIMATE CHANGE

Stark new UN report on global warming sounds life-ordeath warning

13-10-2018 09:19 IPCC report warns that time is running out to avert climate-induced disaster, with its authors calling for a complete transformation not just of the global economy, but of society too.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

‘This is the last chance to get things right’ on global warming

13-10-2018 09:08 IPCC member and CONICET researcher Carolina Vera on why Argentina and the world must take action on global warming – and fast.

by Fermin Koop