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Montevideo, October 19th 2025 - 12:40 UTC

Tag: paris Agreement

  • Saturday, August 23rd 2025 - 12:15 UTC

    Amazonia Summit countries pass Bogotá Declaration

    The document provides for coordinated joint environmental actions

    Leaders of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela on Friday approved the Bogotá Declaration, a document that establishes a unified position for COP30, scheduled for November 10-21 in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

  • Wednesday, June 4th 2025 - 19:02 UTC

    Further investments in Paraguay announced after Singapore deal

    “Paraguay has one of the most advanced laws in terms of carbon credits,” Siokos explained

    Astarte Capital Partners representative Stavros Siokos announced that the investors were evaluating further disbursements in Paraguay through the Second Forestry Fund to reach US$ 700 million following the South American country's carbon credit understanding last week with Singapore under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

  • Thursday, February 6th 2025 - 08:30 UTC

    Milei now wants Argentina to quit the Paris Agreement

    Milei's government keeps taking stage countering progressive measures adopted under previous administrations

    After pulling his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), Argentine President Javier Milei admitted Wednesday in an interview with a French outlet that he intended to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit greenhouse gas emmissions to preserve the planet's temperature from rising. “The environmentalist agenda is a real fraud,” said Milei, thus echoing similar recent statements from US President Donald Trump. To withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Law 27.270 would have to b e repealed by Congress.

  • Tuesday, June 27th 2023 - 08:25 UTC

    Mercosur/EU trade accord: Lula describes EU amendments as 'unacceptable”, but will continue talks

    “I intend to discuss this matter with President Emmanuel Macron because France strongly defends its agricultural interests,” Lula stated

    Brazilian president Lula da Silva reiterated his support for the signing of the agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur but expressed his dissatisfaction with the additional terms proposed by the European bloc, calling them “unacceptable.”

  • Monday, November 15th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

    Mixed feelings after Glasgow's COP26 final document

    India's wording suggestion allowed for a compromise document to be signed after all

    One day after closing the UN's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson highlighted one historical fact: coal has been sentenced to death as a source of energy over time.

  • Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 20:17 UTC

    US promoting Endangered Species Act for Emperor penguin colonies

    I first saw an emperor penguin when I visited Pointe Geologie, Antarctica, during my Ph.D. studies

    By Stephanie Jenouvrier (*) Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips to bring food from the ocean become long and arduous, and their chicks may starve. With too little sea ice, the chicks are at risk of drowning.

  • Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 10:34 UTC

    Macron in a rally declares he opposes the trade agreement of EU with Mercosur

    The decision follows the defeat of Macron in the municipal elections and the strong advance of the Greens.

    French president, Emmanuel Macron, declared his opposition to the free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur. In addition, 265 civil society organizations were also mobilized against the agreement. The decision follows the defeat of Macron in the municipal elections and the strong advance of the Greens.

  • Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

    Thunberg berates older generations at UN Summit for their disregard of climate issues

    “People are suffering, people are dying, ecosystems are dying, collapsing...” cried Thunberg.

    A group of 16 young activists led by Greta Thunberg, denounced Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey to the UN for not protecting children from the impact of climate change in one of Monday's highlights at the historic climate summit in New York convened by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

  • Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 18:07 UTC

    Bolsonaro's haircut a coarse gesture from Brazil to France's FM

    Bolsonaro is a notorious skeptic of climate change and his haircut was broadcast.

    Brazil's authorities maintained Friday President Jair Bolsonaro's haircut was not the reason for leaving France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in the lurch and argued it was all a matter of agenda.

  • Monday, May 13th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

    UN Guterres on tour of Pacific islands threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change

    “We are seeing everywhere a clear demonstration that we are not on track to achieve the objectives defined in the Paris agreement,” Guterres said

    United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has kicked off a major United Nations push for progress on what he calls the defining issue of our time: climate change. Guterres traveled to New Zealand on Sunday, from where he is set to visit several Pacific islands where rising sea levels are threatening the very existence of those small countries.

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