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Climate change and migration in Mexico: Fifth in our series
By Nic Wirtz / Climate change is driving an increasing number of Latin Americans northwards toward Mexico and to the United ...
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Why Latin America shouldn’t pull its punches with Trump
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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 time to step up and defend ...
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A Canada-Latin America partnership: Four ways to address climate change
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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 U.S. decision to abandon the Paris Agreement on climate ...
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Protecting the environment without the U.S.
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The Trump administration’s decision to abandon the Paris Agreement was no surprise. The world, U.S. cities, and U.S. businesses are already moving on, with or without DC’s ...
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Climate change, housing and displacement in Guatemala: Third in our series
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Sixty one percent of the homes in Guatemala have been determined to be inadequate, at risk to the effects extreme weather such as mudslides and flooding, potentially displacing more than 9 million ...
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Climate change and migration in Guatemala: Second in our series
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The Trump administration is making noises that it will re-focus U.S.-Central America Plan for Prosperity aid on security. But poverty and natural disasters are bigger contributors to migratory ...
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Climate change and food security in Guatemala: The first in a series of reports
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Rising temperatures, extreme weather and lack of infrastructure are threatening Guatemala’s food security. But the government has done little to recognize the trends and prepare for the fall ...
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How can Latin America reduce its exposure to climate risk?
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Climate change and efforts to address it threaten to reduce the value of important economic assets in the region. Can long-term planning help reduce risk to governments and ...
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Can Latin America and the Caribbean reduce its exposure to climate risk?
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Two years ago scientists stumbled upon hundreds of dead whales in a remote area of Patagonia in southern Chile in the biggest single whale stranding ever recorded. Scientists were befuddled as to why so many normally solitary Sei whales ended up in the same area. It is suspected, the whales may have been poisoned by ingesting prey ...
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