South America
US, Argentina sign climate pact, urge aviation emissions deal
NEWS: Obama’s climate diplomacy drive continues, agreeing to work with Argentina and Cuba on efforts to decarbonise global economy
UN: China, India driving new clean energy investments
NEWS: Further policy interventions required, say authors of UN report, if world is to move away from oil, gas, coal and embrace low emission future
UN envoy warns of environmental activist murder ‘epidemic’
NEWS: Expert on indigenous rights demands consumers boycott ‘blood-tainted’ products from land grabs amid weak state response
Will Brazil new climate ‘sheriffs’ get Paris pledges on track?
COMMENT: A reshuffle in the environment ministry could spur vital progress on the country’s climate objectives, but big barriers lie ahead
Uruguay pushes 100% renewables, just don’t mention the cows
NEWS: South America’s clean energy poster child is skewering its fossil fuel use, but reducing emissions from its meat industry is tough
World’s first cactus-powered plant opens in Mexico
NEWS: Pilot scheme will run cars and a small power plant on biogas from prickly pear harvested in Michoacan state
Is climate change driving the spread of zika virus?
NEWS: Record temperatures could be creating the conditions for a spike in the number of disease-carrying mosquitoes, scientists say
Cleared rainforest bounces back faster than thought – study
NEWS: Recovering forests’ uptake of carbon dioxide outstrips pristine jungle and could play a bigger role in countering climate change
Brazil inflames forest fires with pro-deforestation laws
NEWS: New laws under consideration will likely spark more tree-cutting − despite serious drought already contributing to a big increase in vast destructive fires
Brazil climate plan on standby as Rousseff totters
ANALYSIS: Brasilia is too preoccupied with economic crisis and attempts to impeach the president to push the low carbon agenda
Brazil faces human rights probe over Amazon hydropower dam
NEWS: Regional commission forces official response to alleged abuses at Belo Monte hydro plant in Para state
Venezuela: From bloodied hand to shock climate pledge
ANALYSIS: Once a fierce critic of the UN climate negotiations, Claudia Salerno became one of the strongest supporters of a Paris deal
Brazil backs ‘high ambition coalition’ to break Paris deadlock
NEWS: Decision marks a rupture in BASIC bloc as India, China opposed to groups’ faster carbon-cutting aims
Ecuador minister ‘quietly optimistic’ at Paris climate summit
INTERVIEW: Daniel Ortega Pacheco tells Climate Home French presidency has impressed but main test is to come, and questions impact of EU’s new ‘coalition of ambition’
Paris climate talks: What do the last 3 days have in store?
ANALYSIS: Oil producers, forest nations, high-tech trading centres, low lying and desert countries all have distinct interests to protect. This is where it gets serious.
Brazil tasked with resolving rich-poor divide at climate talks
NEWS: Hosts hope Latin American giant can help draft compromise allowing developed and developing nations to back new global climate deal on Friday
Ecuador: US has no right to ‘kidnap’ Paris climate talks
VIDEO: US-led drive for pact without legal force is conditioning outcome at UN COP21 summit, warns environment minister
Nicaragua to defy UN in climate pledge refusal
VIDEO: Latin American state won’t legitimise ‘failed mechanism’ with national plan as world still on track for dangerous climate change, lead envoy says
Latin American leadership is critical to securing a Paris climate pact
ANALYSIS: Latin America may be a fragmented continent at the UN climate talks but they have much in common given their vulnerability to climate impacts and potential for clean energy expansion.
COP21: What do countries want from a Paris climate deal?
ANALYSIS: China, the EU, US, small island states and the least developed countries outline what they want to see in a proposed global agreement