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El auge del gas en México se enfrenta a Trump y a preocupaciones ambientales
MÉXICO – En septiembre pasado, frente a las costas del golfo de México, en la ciudad mexicana de Altamira, salió de una instalación flotante de la empresa estadounidense New Fortress Energy el primer cargamento de gas natural licuado (GNL) con destino a Europa. Esta nueva actividad forma parte de una oleada de inversiones en gas que ha llegado al país en los últimos años, dirigida a los mercados de Europa y el sudeste asiático con gas natural producido en Estados Unidos y procesado en México.
¿Puede América Latina construir una economía postfósil?
BUENOS AIRES – En los últimos años, América Latina ha avanzado a pasos agigantados en el desarrollo de fuentes de energía renovables como la solar y la eólica, partiendo de la base de la energía hidroeléctrica que ya ha dotado a la región de algunos de los sistemas eléctricos más limpios del mundo. En Brasil, en los dos últimos años se ha incrementado la energía solar a un ritmo de aproximadamente 1 gigavatio al mes.
¿Puede América Latina construir una economía post-fósil?
En los últimos años, América Latina ha avanzado a pasos agigantados en el desarrollo de fuentes de energía renovables como la solar y la eólica, partiendo de la base de la energía hidroeléctrica que ya ha dotado a la región de algunos de los sistemas eléctricos más limpios del mundo. En Brasil, en los dos últimos años se ha incrementado la energía solar a un ritmo de aproximadamente 1 gigavatio al mes.
Roundtable: Can Latin America build a post-fossil fuel economy?
In recent years, Latin America has taken strides forward in scaling up renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, building on its bedrock of hydropower that has already equipped the region with some of the world’s cleanest electricity systems. In Brazil, the past two years have seen solar power additions charge ahead at a rate of roughly 1 gigawatt per month.
América Latina puede tener un rol ‘destacado’ en la transición energética, según un informe
América Latina podría desempeñar un papel cada vez más influyente en la transición mundial hacia las energías limpias, según un nuevo informe de la Agencia Internacional de la Energía (AIE). El reporte Perspectivas Energéticas de América Latina de la AIE destaca cómo los exitosos proyectos de energías renovables de Latinoamérica y sus abundantes recursos naturales podrían posicionarla como una región clave para acelerar las transiciones sostenibles dentro y fuera de sus fronteras.
Latin America can play ‘outsized’ role in shift from fossil fuels, report says
Latin America could play an increasingly influential role in the global transition to clean energy, a new report from the International Energy Agency has said. The IEA’s Latin America Energy Outlook has highlighted how the region’s abundant natural resources and renewable energy successes to date could position it to accelerate sustainable transitions at home and abroad.
¿Qué es la COP28 y qué significa para América Latina?
La COP28 es la cumbre climática de la ONU de este año, la 28ª Conferencia de las Partes (COP) de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC). La reunión congregará a los 198 signatarios de la convención, que se reúnen cada año para debatir los esfuerzos para limitar el cambio climático y adaptarse a sus efectos. Todos los Estados miembros de la ONU más la Unión Europea son partes de la CMNUCC.
¿Qué es la COP28 y qué significa para América Latina?
La COP28 es la cumbre climática de la ONU de este año, la 28ª Conferencia de las Partes (COP) de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC). La reunión congregará a los 198 signatarios de la convención, que se reúnen cada año para debatir los esfuerzos para limitar el cambio climático y adaptarse a sus efectos. Todos los Estados miembros de la ONU más la Unión Europea son partes de la CMNUCC.
Explainer: What is COP28 and what does it mean for Latin America?
COP28 is this year’s crucial UN climate summit, the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The meeting will bring together the 198 signatories to the convention, which meet every year to discuss efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. All UN member states plus the European Union are parties to the UNFCCC.
La pesca de calamar aumenta en medio de un vacío normativo
En Perú se conoce como pota. En Chile se conoce como jibia y en México como “el diablo rojo” por su tendencia a ponerse de este color cuando se lo atrapa. En inglés, es el calamar de Humboldt. Se llame como se llame, el Dosidicus gigas es la especie de calamar más pescada del mundo.
What will Paraguay’s new president mean for the environment?
The Paraguay Conserves poster also highlights the creation of an early warning system for climate risks, though this was already part of the country’s for 2022–2030. This system will be important for decision-making in livestock and crop production, which suffered catastrophic losses in 2021 when it did not rain for almost a year.
Big banks linked to deforestation that threatens Indigenous people
Banks including HSBC, JP Morgan and Santander have assisted the growth of both companies, with the trio having helped Minerva in share sales and finding investors on bonds worth US$1.4 billion. The Bank of America, meanwhile, underwrote a US$285 million bond for Frigorifico Concepción in 2021.
Four ways climate change harms the health of South Americans
Climate change is increasing temperatures across South America, reducing rainfall in several of its countries, leading glaciers to rapidly retreat in the Andes, and causing sea levels to rise on the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines. Coverage of changing weather patterns and extreme weather events, as well as the harm they bring to South America’s ecosystems, is widespread, but their impacts on people’s health are perhaps less widely understood.
Q&A: Deepening transboundary water cooperation in South America
Another way to mitigate the adverse environmental effects and impacts of climate change is to strengthen the ecosystem of the region. The Itaipu Biosphere Reserve is a huge area designated by UNESCO, and it is important to maintain its health to regulate water flow, both of terrestrial and atmospheric rivers. We can implement sustainable development actions in the areas of our immediate influence and beyond, actions which protect the habitat and provide important ecosystem services.
Q&A: Deepening transboundary cooperation on water in South America
Another way to mitigate the adverse environmental effects and impacts of climate change is to strengthen the ecosystem of the region. The Itaipu Biosphere Reserve is a huge area designated by UNESCO, and it is important to maintain its health to regulate water flow, both of terrestrial and atmospheric rivers. We can implement sustainable development actions in the areas of our immediate influence and beyond, actions which protect the habitat and provide important ecosystem services.
Sápara: the Amazon community going global in its fight against oil majors
“We saw that they were coming and we knew what they were going to do,” said Indigenous leader Manari Ushigua, recalling a distant dream in which he saw his community defend itself against outsiders who came to their forests in search of oil. A traditional healer and political leader of the Sápara people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Manari told of how other members in his community described having the same dream. What they saw would later come true.
Repsol oil spill: One year on, no justice in sight for Peruvian fishers
A dark, greasy layer sits upon the water, sullying all that it touches as it laps against the pillars of the pier. Here in Ancón, a popular seaside resort to the north of Lima, residents have had to learn to live with this stain on their seas in the year since the oil spill of 15 January 2022. What began as a spill of 0.16 barrels of oil, as reported by Repsol, the Spanish energy giant behind the incident, had three days later seen some 6,000 barrels pour from one of its refineries.
Can renewable energy help reduce inequality in the Amazon?
Unlikely as it may seem, there is no shortage of energy in the Peruvian Amazon. While less than 20% of the 2,703 native communities who call this tropical forest home have electric lighting connected to the public grid, this significant deficit has been compensated with communal energy sources such as generators or solar panels, which are found in at least 840 communities.
How solar power could help fight energy poverty in Argentina
On the outskirts of Rosario, Argentina’s third largest city, lies Nuevo Alberdi, the neighbourhood where sisters Lorena and Elizabeth Ayala live, and where many residents still struggle with access to essential services such as electricity. The 460 families living in Nuevo Alberdi have had to build their own infrastructure to access electricity or connect to the national grid, doing so in often illegal and dangerous ways.
Argentina’s soy producers push for traceability to combat deforestation
Soybean producers and traders in Argentina are looking to establish traceability systems to ensure that produce comes exclusively from deforestation-free fields, efforts that come amid increasingly demanding regulations in export markets such as the European Union and pressure for sustainable food production from environmental organisations. Soy is one of the world’s major sources of protein, with both its grains and by-products primarily used as animal feed.
Chinese privet: the invasive tree putting Argentina’s native forests at risk
The Chinese privet (Ligustrum lucidum) was first planted in Argentina in the early 20th century, when it was seen as a desirable addition to parks and gardens for its year-round green leaves. An evergreen tree native to southern China, its presence in the South American country quickly spread, both as an ornamental and urban tree, particularly in the central province of Córdoba.
Mexico’s new renewable energy plan is ambitious but vague
After three years steadfastly backing the oil industry, the Mexican government has announced a new renewable energy plan that could serve as a springboard for the country’s energy transition. Presented at the recent COP27 climate summit in Egypt, the Sonora Plan features a range of green infrastructure initiatives in the northern state of the same name, aimed at boosting the country’s renewable power and manufacturing capacity.
COP15 reaches historic agreement to protect biodiversity
NGOs also wanted stronger language around subsidies and questioned the lack of a numerical target on reducing human consumption and production, key drivers of biodiversity loss. Greenpeace was especially critical, claiming that the agreed funding isn’t enough and that the 30×30 target fails to ban certain damaging activities from protected areas.
Diálogo Chino’s top stories in 2022
After the upheaval of 2020 and stuttering recovery in 2021, Latin America and the world will have hoped for a quieter, steadier year in 2022. It has been anything but. The enduring effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have brought disruption to economies and supply chains, with implications for politics and the environment – disruption that has been exacerbated further by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Illegal wildlife trade hotspot Peru steps up fight against traffickers
In Madre de Dios, the of the Peruvian Amazon and a hotbed of illegal wildlife trafficking, Magali Salinas has over the past 17 years rehabilitated and released hundreds of animals, including howler, capuchin and black-headed night monkeys, hawks, turtles and opossums. “I have freed more than 50 howler monkeys. Seeing them running to freedom is priceless,” said Salinas, founder of the Amazon Shelter rescue centre.
‘How are we going to live?’: The impact of mining on communities in Peru
Copper is big business for Peru. The country is one of the world’s largest copper producers, second only to Chile, and with the metal representing nearly 30% of its total exports, no single product is more important to the national purse. Some of the world’s largest copper reserves are found along Peru’s “mining corridor” that stretches almost 400 kilometres across the country’s south, including the Las Bambas mine that alone accounts for 2% of global supply.
Stereotomy and L’Art du Trait: The Guitarde as a Case Study
Stereotomy and L’Art du Trait: The Guitarde as a Case Study [1] Compagnons du devoir Localización: Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, ISSN-e 2660-583X, ISSN 2660-5821, Nº. 3, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism), págs.
COP15: Whose business is nature anyway?
Public finance has been slow to come to the table at negotiations for a new deal on nature under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The issue is a key sticking point in the COP15 negotiations, which are ongoing in Montreal, Canada, with scant progress made during several rounds of technical talks in the lead up to the final discussions. The financing gap is huge.
Carlos Nobre: ‘Nature more powerful for Amazon economy than extraction’
In the early 1970s, a young Carlos Nobre was introduced to the Amazon rainforest by a university professor who wanted his students to see the different regions of Brazil first hand. He was instantly fascinated and soon made it the main focus of his research. Now an acclaimed climate scientist, Nobre has over the past half-century used his work to sound the alarm about changes in the biome that threaten its rich biodiversity and the global climate.
Illegal wildlife trade hotspot Peru steps up fight against traffickers
In Madre de Dios, the of the Peruvian Amazon and a hotbed of illegal wildlife trafficking, Magali Salinas has over the past 17 years rehabilitated and released hundreds of animals, including howler, capuchin and black-headed night monkeys, hawks, turtles and opossums. “I have freed more than 50 howler monkeys. Seeing them running to freedom is priceless,” said Salinas, founder of the Amazon Shelter rescue centre.
Chile’s push to enter global green hydrogen market faces obstacles
Two years ago, Chile set itself the goal of becoming one of the world’s main producers of green hydrogen, the clean, combustible gas often dubbed the “fuel of the future”. But the country has since encountered difficulties, including disputes over a new research hub aimed at boosting its hydrogen industry. Meanwhile, industry experts have voiced concerns over Chile’s lack of focus on generating domestic demand for the fuel. What is “green” hydrogen?
Can Latin America achieve a just transition to electric transport?
Latin America’s energy outlook is a complex one. The region generates more than half of its electricity from renewable sources, more than double the shares seen in the United States and China, and more than the European Union. But it is a different story for transport, with its nations still overwhelmingly reliant on fossil fuels to get around. What is a “just transition”?
COP27: Gender and climate change links overlooked again?
During the opening days of the recent COP27 climate summit, one particular image went viral: the customary family photo of attending heads of state and government figures, which was called out for its visible lack of women. According to an official list published by the United Nations, of the 110 world leaders present in Egypt, only eight were women – a percentage similar to that of women leaders worldwide. This is nothing new.
Can Argentina balance climate, cash, jobs and justice at Vaca Muerta?
For the Argentine government, oil and gas extraction at Vaca Muerta, the vast geological formation in the western province of Neuquén that is home to some of the world’s largest shale deposits, presents an opportunity to solve the country’s energy supply problems, to boost foreign exchange and to create jobs.
Elizabeth Mrema: ‘I have mixed feelings on how COP15 talks are going’
After two years of postponements, virtual meetings and a location change from China to Canada, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s talks on the protection of the natural world will finally open in two weeks’ time. The COP15 summit, set to be held 7–19 December in Montreal, is expected to conclude with an agreement on the delayed Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. However, many countries differ on a number of key issues, especially on finance for biodiversity protection.
Green hydrogen: Latin America makes moves on ‘fuel of the future’
Latin American countries are taking their first steps into the burgeoning global green hydrogen industry, seeking to take advantage of their high potential in renewable energies and drive their efforts towards carbon neutrality by mid-century. Hydrogen gas, used as a fuel for transport, power generation and industrial activities, releases no greenhouse gas emissions when it is burned, but has often been obtained as a by-product of polluting processes.
Top of the COPs: ‘Rockstar’ Lula puts Brazil back on climate stage at COP27
Following his victory in Brazil’s recent presidential election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has headed for Egypt and brought an intriguing twist to the country’s presence at the COP27 climate summit. Few presidents-elect will have received so warm a welcome at a multilateral event, as if they were already in office, and overshadowed their country’s official delegation so emphatically.
COP27: Who’s to blame for loss and damage from climate change?
Loss and damage – the term used to describe the costs of the unavoidable and irreparable damage caused by extreme weather and climate change – has been a central theme of the COP27 climate summit currently taking place in Egypt. At its opening ceremony, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the outcome on this issue will determine the success or failure of the meeting.
COP27: Who’s to blame for loss and damage from climate change?
Loss and damage – the term used to describe the costs of the unavoidable and irreparable damage caused by extreme weather and climate change – has been a central theme of the COP27 climate summit currently taking place in Egypt. At its opening ceremony, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the outcome on this issue will determine the success or failure of the meeting.
Susana Muhamad: ‘Emissions reduction should be the central issue, but it is not’
“The science has spoken: the climate crisis is humanity’s biggest problem. It can end – and has the potential to end – life on the planet and the existence of the human species. Political leadership from the first COP to date has failed to stop the cause of the climate crisis.” This was the apocalyptic tone struck by Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, in his address to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
Wind farms in Brazil are encroaching on traditional community land
Its energy is known for being clean, but its rapid expansion across Brazil’s Northeast region has not been so polished. In the state of Bahia, the country’s leader in wind generation, communities in at least 11 municipalities are experiencing conflicts with companies in the sector, some of which have been involved in disputes for more than a decade.
Susana Muhamad: ‘Emissions reduction should be the central issue, but it is not’
“The science has spoken: the climate crisis is humanity’s biggest problem. It can end – and has the potential to end – life on the planet and the existence of the human species. Political leadership from the first COP to date has failed to stop the cause of the climate crisis.” This was the apocalyptic tone struck by Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, in his address to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
Argentina climate sec: ‘Natural gas is fundamental for our development’
For Argentina, tackling the climate crisis means putting together the pieces of a puzzle, says Cecilia Nicolini, the country’s climate change secretary. As the country continues to grapple with a long-running debt crisis, it faces limits to its financial capacity for climate action, while simultaneously trying to tackle social crises, with over of the population estimated to be living below the poverty line.
COP27: ¿Qué son las pérdidas y los daños, y qué significan para América Latina?
¿Por qué las pérdidas y los daños son un tema de disputa? Las pérdidas y daños se han convertido en un tema polémico en las negociaciones internacionales sobre el clima debido a la cuestión de la responsabilidad y la compensación.
COP27: What is loss and damage, and what does it mean for Latin America?
The effects of climate change are already being felt across the world. As temperatures continue to rise, Latin America is among the regions set to be most severely impacted. Much discussion on the international stage has focused on adapting to the effects of a changing climate. But in some cases, ecosystems are already damaged beyond repair, permanently disrupting the lives of the communities they sustain. In climate change diplomacy, these irreparable consequences are known as “loss and damage”.
COP27: Latin America edges towards unity on climate at Egypt summit
Latin American presidents and environment ministers have used the United Nations’ COP27 climate change conference to call for greater regional alignment on climate policy, as a joint declaration set out unified positions for the region. In most UN settings, on trade or human rights, for example, the region’s 33 nations coordinate negotiations – or at least attempt to – as a single bloc, the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC).
Illegal gold mining ‘mafias’ threaten life in an Ecuadorian river
“A river is like an artery and, in this case, what is happening is as if we were cutting off an artery that irrigates a huge area,” said Jorge Celi, a professor of ecology and earth sciences at Ikiam. “The whole river is being affected, not just the section where the [mining] work is being done. "In a river, its course or flow is very important, as well as the chemistry of the water.
Gran Chaco: Argentina risks losing its largest native forest
Though it attracts less attention than its Amazon neighbour, the Gran Chaco has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, having lost over a quarter of its forest area since 2000. Destruction in the biome, which stretches across northern Argentina, Paraguay, southern Bolivia and southernmost Brazil, has been driven in recent decades, in particular, by the expansion of genetically modified soybean production and cattle ranching.
Gran Chaco: Argentina risks losing its largest native forest
Though it attracts less attention than its Amazon neighbour, the Gran Chaco has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, having lost over a quarter of its forest area since 2000. Destruction in the biome, which stretches across northern Argentina, Paraguay, southern Bolivia and southernmost Brazil, has been driven in recent decades, in particular, by the expansion of genetically modified soybean production and cattle ranching.
Ahead of COP27, young Mexicans feel urgency and apathy in climate crisis
In early October, activists from the group Just Stop Oil threw a can of tomato soup at a Van Gogh painting in a London gallery, before glueing their hands to the wall. “What matters more: art or life?” they shouted. “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting, or the protection of our planet and people?” Their protest sparked a global media response.
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