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Fifty years of damage isn’t enough. A new race for oil is underway in the Amazon.
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The Critical Minerals Trade: The Illegal Route Connecting the Amazon with China
A complex network of actors has emerged around the critical minerals of the Amazon. Some operate along contested river corridors, trading with guerrilla groups and corrupt security forces. Others, under a façade of legality, move massive quantities of material through large port cities connected to international trade routes. Together, these operations endanger the environment and…
Chorrobocón’s Gamble: Betting on Critical Minerals
In Colombia’s jungles, where the deep green of the Amazon collides with poverty and exclusion, a hidden and dangerous business flourishes. In the remote corners of Guainía, Indigenous communities such as the Puinave find themselves trapped in illegal mining, an activity that allows them to survive but threatens to destroy the land they inhabit. With…
The Price of Progress: The Dark Side of Critical Minerals in the Amazon
Based on extensive fieldwork and an investigation of supply chains, tracing minerals from extraction to international buyers, we reveal how the global race for the inputs of the energy transition is intensifying violent disputes along the Colombia–Venezuela border, where armed groups control the territory, commit systematic abuses, and destroy one of the planet’s most important…
COP30 ends with minimal commitments, Latin American objections, and lots of work ahead
The conference that sought agreements and actions to mitigate the impacts of global warming ended with criticism of its final decisions that did not include clear targets to transition away from fossil fuels, its superficial texts on mitigation, adaptation and financing, and its lack of transparency.
In a historic achievement, Afro-Descendants and Indigenous Peoples’ prior consultation are included for the first time in the UN Climate Conference
The recognition was included in the text on just energy transition, but also in other key texts of COP30, alongside the defense of Indigenous territorial rights.
False Climate Solutions Advance in the Amazon as COP30 Discusses the Planet’s Future
In Belém, public hearings symbolically tried 21 cases of socio-environmental violations. Experts warn: greenwashing has become more sophisticated and turned into a disinformation strategy.
COP30 Daily: What’s Happening in the Final Days of Climate Negotiation
See what is moving forward — and what is stalling — in the negotiations of the final week of the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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