Brazil’s Environmentalist Façade Unmasked at COP22

Brazil’s Environmentalist Façade Unmasked at COP22

Brazil’s new Minister of Agriculture, Blairo Maggi, struggled to respond to civil society challenges at COP22, as the country’s commitment ...
Perspectives from a People’s Summit

Perspectives from a People’s Summit

Contrasting with UN negotiations on climate change, debates about climate justice at the People’s Summit demanded a departure from the ...
Brazil Without Poverty? Dilma’s Double Discourse

Brazil Without Poverty? Dilma’s Double Discourse

Last week Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched an ambitious program to eradicate extreme poverty by 2014. Under the “Brazil Without ...
Forests Under Fire

Forests Under Fire

Colombia boasts a dizzying array of landscapes: from high Andean páramos to the tropical Amazon, from arid deserts to the ...