The Escazú Agreement is a legal instrument for environmental protection, but it is also a human rights treaty. Its main beneficiaries are the people of the...
To mark the upcoming International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the authors spoke with Lola Cabnal, a Guatemalan indigenous leader, to discuss the...
Representatives of government and civil society will meet in Santiago to advance the implementation of the historic environmental accord weeks after President...
The war in Ukraine holds a hard lesson about our failure to face up to the climate crisis. We must heed lessons of the recent past and rise up to meet the...
As resource pressures and climatic events wreak havoc in the Brazilian Amazon, traditional populations are being forced to move away from the places that define...
A major challenge in the field of environmental peacebuilding is showing the impact of its initiatives. Questions emerge, such as "Which dimensions of post...
Women in the region suffer disproportionately from climate impacts, but they also play an essential role in addressing climate change. With the right policy...
During the past two weeks, Antigua & Barbuda, Nicaragua and Panama ratified the Escazú Agreement, giving a major boost to the unprecedented and innovative Latin...
Meaningful engagement with the social and conflict implications of climate change in Solomon Islands must be firmly grounded within local worldviews—within...
U.S. diplomats used to receive guidance about climate change and migration. The Government Accountability Office is recommending the State Department bring it...
In some areas of the world, including Central America, rising sea levels and declining agricultural productivity due to climate change are expected to trigger...
After an 18-month stretch without a White House science adviser – the longest any modern president has gone without a science adviser – Trump appoints extreme...
Starting in 2014, the number of migrants from Central America’s Northern Triangle surged. Experts blame the region’s widespread criminal violence for spurring...