With its vast tropical forests, Latin America can greatly benefit from efforts to limit deforestation, writes COA's Nicole Spencer in Poder.
Environment & Sustainability
As cyclone activity increases around the world, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies work to reduce the impact of natural disasters through advanced preparation.
After revealing a drop in deforestation rates, Brazil announced a greenhouse gas reduction target of nearly 40 percent by 2020. Brazil has partnered with France to chart a global climate change proposal for next month's UN environmental summit. Still, bold plans could give way to a scaled-back agreement in Copenhagen.
AS/COA co-hosted a panel disucssion on UN climate change conference in Copenhagen; international versus domestic commitments; and the expectations and constraints of U.S., EU, and Asian countries going into the negotiations.
Chile's former president, Ricardo Lagos, calls for a new global metric to measure a country's carbon footprint in the Fall 2009 issue of Americas Quarterly.