Sebastian Rodriguez

Sebastián Rodríguez joined Climate Home News in 2022 as special projects editor. Based in San José Costa Rica, he started out as a reporter for Ojo al Clima, Central America’s first climate news outlet. He has reported on climate for Reuters, DW and Mongabay. Before joining Climate Home News, he was editor in chief at Climate Tracker.

Brazil's President Lula embraces environment minister Marina Silva, with tears in his eyes

Cop28 bulletin: US GCF pledge and ‘greenwash’ oil and gas charter

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Cop28 bulletin: Fossil fuel phaseout is on the table

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As it happened: World leaders speak at Cop28 in Dubai

World leaders set out their climate plans and negotiating positions at Cop28. Follow the news and views with Climate Home News, live

US, China, UK left off UN Climate Action Summit guestlist. UN chief calls on governments to ban fossil fuel ads. G20 waters down experts' climate finance report, despite UN pressure to act

‘First movers’ only: US, China, UK left off UN climate guestlist

Only five of the G20 major economies made the cut for Antonio Guterres’ Climate Ambition Summit in New York, despite pressure from big powers

UN report: Climate plans fall short of meeting climate goals

UN says more needed ‘on all fronts’ to meet climate goals

The UN Global Stocktake report calls on governments to scale up renewable energy and phase out all “unabated” fossil fuels.

Brazil's president Lula da Silva giving a speech at the Amazon Summit. Lula scraps Bolsonaro's cuts to Brazilian climate target ambition

Amazon nations fail to agree on deforestation goal at summit

Eight South American nations agreed on a list of joint actions to protect the Amazon rainforest, but failed to mention a long-awaited target to halt deforestation.

UN deep-sea mining talks deadlocked over agenda clash

A dozen countries want to officially debate for the first time in history the possibility to halt deep-sea mining, but have faced opposition from China and the island-nation of Nauru.

Truck driving timber across deforested lands in Indonesia.

“Green” funds destroy Indonesia’s forests – Climate Weekly

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Lula da Silva and Xi Jinping meeting in China to cooperate on climate change.

China and Brazil to cooperate in stopping illegal trade fueling deforestation

Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva, met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping in China and announced new collaborations to control illegal deforestation.

An agriculture worker in Nicaragua's Caribbean region, where a GCF project is under a complaint. Funding Stagnation Puts Green Climate Fund Ambition at Risk

Green Climate Fund credibility hangs over response to violence in Nicaragua project

Indigenous people in Nicaragua have accused a Green Climate Fund project of exacerbating violence with settlers invading their land

Mexico plans to ban solar geoengineering after rogue experiment

A US startup carried out a geoengineering experiment in Mexico, which the country claims was done without prior notice and consent

During his inauguration, Lula da Silva mentioned climate action in his first speech as president

Lula revives $1 billion Amazon Fund and environmental protections

On his first day in office as Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva signed a package of seven executive orders to protect the environment

At the UN biodiversity negotiations, countries agreed to protect 30% of the world's land and oceans.

‘Kunming-Montreal’ deal sets up new fund for biodiversity by 2023

Countries committed to mobilise $200 billion “from all sources” to protect 30% of the world’s land and water ecosystems by 2030

Cop15 delegates in Montreal clash over finance negotiations

After developing country walkout, ministers arrive to rescue nature talks

Tensions are running high at the Cop15 biodiversity summit over a finance gap estimated at $700 billion per year

Climate Home’s five must-read climate change stories from 2022

The hype machine behind a $70,000 carbon credit, fossil fuel fights in Sharm el-Sheikh and other essential journalism

Delegates gathered in the plenary at the COP15 UN Biodiversity summit in Montreal.

Governments split on ditching nature-harming subsidies in Montreal

Negotiators at the Cop15 biodiversity summit in Montreal have until Friday to agree a “nature pact” that can get rid of harmful subsidies

UN nature pact nears its ‘Copenhagen or Paris’ moment

Cop15 biodiversity negotiations in Montreal next month will determine how the world halts and reverses nature loss

A girl in a purple headwrap speaks into a microphone at a desk with a Ghana badge

Cop27 bulletin: John Kerry has Covid

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Cop27 bulletin: ‘Elements’ leave much to negotiate

Lula da Silva with a hand raised to greet onlookers

Lula charms UN climate summit, bringing hope for rainforests

Brazil’s president-elect got a hero’s welcome at Cop27, where he met with climate envoys from the US and China