Ecology and Environment

The Glasgow Climate Pact kicks the climate can down the road By Reynard Loki After more than two weeks of negotiations during the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, diplomats from almost 200 nations finally agreed on two…

This November 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) released a new publication on the Escazú Accord, produced in collaboration with the University of Rosario (Argentina). The book is entitled “The Escazú Agreement on Environmental Democracy and…

In the framework of the Open Encounter of New Humanism, called “The human being as a central value”, we reflect on the global environmental situation and its effects on health. By Doris Balvín What is the state of the global…

After graduating from high school, Melissa started an undergraduate programme in Biology at the University of Antioquia, but after five semesters she decided to take a break in order to commit herself to community work in rural areas. This decision…

by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.   “Climate change” describes a change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time. Earth’s climate is always changing over long periods of time and has been hotter and…

One of the most controversial fixes for global warming is the use of woody biomass, cutting trees, burning trees to achieve “carbon neutral” status in the worldwide battle to conquer climate change/global warming. The term carbon neutral (which is not…

In a context of climate crisis, the United Nations Human Rights Council declared that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right. Socio-environmental assemblies and indigenous peoples in Argentina denounce extractivism as the epicentre of rights violations. The…

The Brazilian biosafety agency has approved the purchase of GM wheat produced in Argentina by the company Bioceres, the last step needed to authorise its commercialisation. The company had already reported that it had planted 55,000 hectares of this variety…

As the COP26 meeting comes to a close in Glasgow with a final agreement that has been widely denounced as insufficient to prevent the planet exceeding the 1.5C change which scientists have recommended as a target to avoid utter devastation…

Pressenza republishes below the text of the statement prepared after publication of the draft agreement by the COP26 Coalition, a UK-based civil society coalition of groups and individuals mobilising around climate justice during COP26. Coalition members include environment and development…