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Guy Edwards is a senior consultant in the Inter-American Development Bank’s Climate Change Division. He was formerly co-director of the Climate and Development Lab, a think tank at Brown University and an associate at the sustainability strategy group, Nivela. He previously worked as a consultant and resident manager of the Huaorani Ecolodge in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He has a Masters degree in Latin American studies from the University of London. Guy’s first book, A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the global politics of climate change, was published by MIT Press in 2015. His work has been published by The New York Times, Project Syndicate, The Guardian, Brookings Institution, Americas Quarterly, El Universal, La Tercera, El Comercio (Ecuador) and Chatham House.
Chile has a great opportunity to lead countries in the climate fight as it hosts world leaders for COP25 and APEC Summit in Santiago next December 2019. Read More
The European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean have laid the groundwork to place the low-carbon and climate-resilient agenda at the heart of their ... Read More
Since the incoming government of Jair Bolsonaro backed out of Brazil’s plan to host the COP25 meetings next year, five Latin American and Caribbean ... Read More
Greater cooperation between countries, states, cities, the private sector and civil society in the U.S. and Latin America can play a vital role in making ... Read More
Los riesgos de comprometer el orden mundial liberal es demasiado grande para América Latina. La región no puede darse el lujo de que la administración de ... Read More
The importance of the liberal world order for Latin America is too great for the region to sit back and allow the Trump administration to damage it. It is ... Read More
The G20 Hamburg summit this Friday could help lay the foundation for a closer cooperation between Canada and Latin America on climate change following the ... Read More
The Americas has a lot at stake in the U.S. remaining in the Paris Agreement. Latin America and Caribbean countries and Canada should convince it to do so. Read More
If President Trump abandons the global fight against climate change, it could leave Latin America more vulnerable to the effects of climate change and ... Read More