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Environment

The importance of environmental care in Latin America

In Latin America, women sustain life in degraded territories, where caring for the environment is also a form of resistance to the climate crisis and to inequality.

Accelerating climate action through mangrove protection and restoration

Putting the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of mangroves and other blue carbon ecosystems front and center of countries’ NDCs is critical to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.

From sargassum to blue economy: an opportunity for the Greater Caribbean

Sargassum, once a refuge for biodiversity, now suffocates Caribbean coasts and threatens public health, but it also opens the door to sustainable innovations that could transform the crisis into an opportunity.

Law from the ground up: Latin America’s model of Environmental Law Clinics

A growing network of Environmental Law Clinics in Latin America is training future lawyers by combining climate justice, community work, and legal innovation.

Imagination from “bottom-up”: rethinking the future in the Age of the Anthropocene

Faced with the planetary crisis of the Anthropocene, the most impactful responses emerge not from global summits, but from local territories reinventing the future from the bottom up.

The effects of human error on the health of the planet

The best way to stop the rise in global temperature is to reduce the accumulation of carbon dioxide, but deniers and the governments that could lead the change are unwilling to make the necessary efforts.