Ships await their turn to cross the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Emilio Godoy / IPS by Emilio Godoy (panama) Friday, August 09, 2024…
Read more Hydrogen from Renewables or Fossil Fuels? The Panamanian QuestionLacandona, the great Mayan jungle that extends through the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, is home to natural wealth and indigenous peoples’ settlements that are once again…
Read more The Ghost of Oil Haunts Mexico’s Lacandona JungleColombian President Gustavo Petro presented his environmental plans at COP28 in Dubai and added his country to the small group of nations that support the negotiation of a…
Read more What Is the Cost of Phasing Out Fossil Fuels in Latin America?The so-called “Green Zone” at COP28, which brings together pavilions of non-governmental organizations and companies that are not officially accredited by the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework…
Read more Renewable Commitments at COP28 Pose Stiffer Energy Challenges for Latin Americaby Emilio Godoy (mexico city) Monday, November 27, 2023 Inter Press Service Throughout 2023, Latin America has suffered heat waves, long, intense droughts, destructive floods and devastating hurricanes –…
Read more Latin America Heads to COP28 with Insufficiently Ambitious GoalsDozens of women environmentalists participated in Mexico City in the launch of the Voices of Life campaign by eight non-governmental organizations on Oct. 12, 2023, which brings together…
Read more How to Defend the Environment and Survive in the Attempt, as a Woman in MexicoThe state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company is completing its seventh refinery on a 600-hectare site at Dos Bocas in the municipality of Paraíso, in the southeastern state…
Read more Pemex Exploits Fossil Fuels with Money from International BanksSara López (C) and other members of the Regional Indigenous and Popular Council of Xpujil are seen here in a photo from 2020, while campaigning against the environmental…
Read more Mexico Turns to Military EntrepreneursThe expansion towards the mountains of the coastal city of Ensenada, in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, stresses the water supply, which is scarce in this…
Read more Mexico Needs to Step Up Treatment and Reuse of Water to Address CrisisThe Mayan Train (TM), run by the government’s National Tourism Development Fund (Fonatur), threatens the Mayan Jungle, the second largest in Latin America after the Amazon rainforest. its…
Read more The Mayan Train Pierces the Yucatan, the Great Jungle of MexicoA gas flare at installations of the state-owned Pemex oil company in the town of Reforma Escolín, Papantla municipality in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz, on Jan.…
Read more Unstoppable Gas Leaks in MexicoGovernment delegations celebrate the close of the historic negotiation at COP15 of the New Global Framework on Biodiversity in the early hours of the morning on Monday Dec.…
Read more Biodiversity Agreement Historic But Difficult to ImplementThe executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, highlighted on Friday Dec. 16 the results of the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources…
Read more Digital Treatment of Genetic Resources Shakes Up COP15A marine diesel truck pump at Ensenada, in the northwestern state of Baja California, property of Pemex and a private partner. Credit: Pemex by Emilio Godoy (veracruz, mexico) Monday,…
Read more Mexicos Huge Challenge To Refine Marine Green FuelsTrains and trucks move cargo in the port of Veracruz, in southeastern Mexico, on August 30, 2022. Through that infrastructure, the second largest in the country for freight…
Read more An Ineffective Mexico, in the Face of Maritime Pollution
