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Oct 28, 2024 | 
dialogue.earth | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Coroneo-Seaman Joe
The UK closed its last coal power plant on 30 September, ending the use of coal for electricity in the country that built the world’s first such power station in 1882. It’s a milestone in the country’s efforts to slow climate change, and a stark difference from just a year ago, when then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a rollback of net-zero policies, drawing criticism from climate experts.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Alejandra Cuéllar
In March, after nearly two decades of discussions, UN member states approved a landmark agreement to protect marine life on the high seas. Even though two-thirds of the global ocean is considered high seas, meaning beyond national jurisdiction, only 1% of this area is currently protected, leaving the rest mostly unregulated and vulnerable to overfishing and pollution.
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May 24, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Flávia Milhorance
After more than two decades on the negotiating table, the trade deal between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc now faces another obstacle: new environmental demands from the EU, with which the Brazilian government appears unwilling to abide, and which even environmentalists have denounced as “greenwash”.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Flávia Milhorance
Alessandra Korap Munduruku, a 38-year-old Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been named as one of the six grassroots activists to receive this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize.
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Mar 24, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Judith Calmels
Neuquén has a notable track record in the production of clean energy, with 15 projects based on renewable sources across the province, with a combined capacity of approximately 850 MW. In the north of the province, where the Nahueve dam is located, the El Alamito solar power park is also currently under development, while work is underway on the Domuyo geothermal power pilot project.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Rick Jacobsen
Deforestation in Brazil reached a 15-year high in 2021, threatening global efforts to mitigate climate change and halt biodiversity loss. Aside from Brazil itself, there is perhaps no other country with as great an opportunity to help prevent this deforestation than China, Brazil’s biggest customer for the two agricultural commodities that are the main drivers of deforestation: soy and cattle.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Rick Jacobsen
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached a 15-year high in 2021, threatening global efforts to mitigate climate change and halt biodiversity loss. Aside from Brazil itself, there is perhaps no other country with as great an opportunity to help prevent this deforestation than China, Brazil’s biggest customer for the two agricultural commodities that are the main drivers of deforestation: soy and cattle.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Rick Jacobsen
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached a 15-year high in 2021, threatening global efforts to mitigate climate change and halt biodiversity loss. Aside from Brazil itself, there is perhaps no other country with as great an opportunity to help prevent this deforestation than China, Brazil’s biggest customer for the two agricultural commodities that are the main drivers of deforestation: soy and cattle.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Fermin Koop
Jonatan Nuñez, a researcher at Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), argues that the relationship between jobs gained and lost in the transition raises questions. “What happens in one sector isn’t always the same in another sector,” he says. “And jobs are not necessarily created and lost in the same place.”Nuñez believes Latin America must use the energy transition to reimagine its place in the world.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
dialogochino.net | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Fermin Koop
En Chile, la empresa estatal CODELCO, la mayor productora de cobre del mundo, anunció el año pasado el cierre de una planta de fundición, Ventanas, ubicada en una de las zonas más contaminadas del país: Quintero, en la región central de Valparaíso. La decisión se tomó luego de un nuevo episodio de contaminación del aire que afectó a cientos de personas y obligó a cerrar escuelas. El presidente Gabriel Boric dijo sentir “verguenza”.
