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Type of Resource

Tracking Latin America’s Progress on Climate Action

  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • NDC
  • COP26
  • climatewatch-pinned
Glacier in Argentina
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • NDC
  • COP26
  • climatewatch-pinned

Colombia Shows Leadership in the Race Against Climate Change

  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • COP26
A cow grazes on a grassy hill, with forested hills in the misty background.
  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • COP26

Chile's Enhanced Climate Plan Sets an Example for Other Countries

  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • Freshwater
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
The buildings and roads of Santiago with the Andes mountains in the background.
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • Freshwater
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration

Land Ruling Threatens Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples and Climate Commitments

  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
view of Chapada Diamantina in Brazil
  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Protecting Indigenous Land Rights Makes Good Economic Sense

  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
River in Colombia
  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

RELEASE: WRI Report Points to a Roadmap for Energy Emissions Reduction in Brazil

  • climate policy
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • climate policy
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • renewable energy

What the U.S.-Brazil Joint Statement on Climate Change Means for the World

  • International Climate Action
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC
President Dilma Rousseff. Photo by Roberto Stuckert Filho/PR
  • International Climate Action
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC

Nicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples Protect their Forests Even Without Government Support

  • Forests
  • Equity & Governance
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
Nicaragua's government recognizes 49 percent of the country's forests as community forests--but it wasn't always this way. Photo credit: Lon&Queta, Flickr
  • Forests
  • Equity & Governance
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights

Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

What Does Environmental Democracy Look Like?

  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy
Eight years ago, developers proposed a five-dam project on the Baker and Pascua Rivers in Patagonia, Chile. While they projected that the hydropower would produce 2,750 megawatts of power, the project would also flood 23 square miles of wilderness, jeopardizing the environment, local culture, and tourism of the region. Photo Credit: International Rivers/Flickr
  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy