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Meet Our 2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners Strengthening Indigenous Knowledge to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change and in Natural Disaster Recovery
Cultural Survival - Massachusetts
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The Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF) is proud to announce our 2025 partnerships with Indigenous communities. At Cultural Survival, we value cultivating long-term relationships with our partners. The Keepers of the Earth Fund is an Indigenous-led...
US proposes zero new protections for traded wildlife at upcoming CITES CoP
Mongabay
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August 18, 2025
The 20th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of signatories to CITES, the international wildlife trade agreement involving 185 nations will be held in late November in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where they will discuss 51 proposals to regulate wildlife...
First Guyanese selected as a Halcyon Fellow for Climate Innovation
Demerara Waves
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August 18, 2025
Last Updated on Monday, 18 August 2025, 11:17 by Denis Chabrol Mr Brian Smith Brian Smith, Founder and Operations Lead of Dragonfly Drones and Geospatial Solutions, has been selected as the first Guyanese to join the Halcyon Fellowship, a global...
The Specter of Political Violence Once Again Haunts Colombia
World Politics Review
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August 18, 2025
The coffin of Miguel Uribe, a senator and presidential hopeful at a funeral service in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 13, 2025 (AP photo by Ivan Valencia). Miguel Uribe Turbay, a Colombian senator and presidential hopeful, died last week, two months after...
When neutrality becomes complicity in fight against plastic pollution
The Jakarta Post
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or the sixth time, the world has engaged in lengthy discussions about the fate of our planet and efforts to combat plastic pollution. Yet, once again, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) failed to produce progressive policies on...
Experts seek global action amid ‘failed treaty’ against plastic pollution
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 18, 2025
Following failed negotiations over a global plastic pollution treaty among over 100 countries in Geneva, environmentalists have underscored the urgency of international cooperation against the menace, insisting that global agreement is crucial in...
State of the Climate 2024: Record heat and rising seas
Earth.com
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In 2024, the world’s climate continued to break records, with greenhouse gas concentrations and global temperatures reaching unprecedented highs. The oceans absorbed more heat than ever before. Sea levels climbed to their highest point on record,...
Climate Change Has Driven the Amazon Rainforest to the Edge of a "Tipping Point"
Futurism
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August 16, 2025
It's at risk of turning into a "savanna-like environment." Dried Up Husk The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are...
Climate change has sent coffee prices soaring. Trump’s tariffs will send them higher.
Yale Climate Connections - Connecticut
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August 15, 2025
Eight years ago, when Debbie Wei Mullin founded her company Copper Cow, she wanted to bring Vietnamese coffee into the mainstream. Vietnam, the world’s second-largest exporter of coffee, is known for growing robusta beans. Earthier and more bitter...
COP30: Pres. Ali warns Trump-Lula tensions could derail climate summit
News Room
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August 16, 2025
Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali has cautioned that the tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could undermine the success of the upcoming UN climate summit, COP30, in Brazil. Speaking on The...
Belt and Road Initiative: Colombia and China sign key trade deal
MercoPress
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Saturday, August 16th 2025 - 10:06 UTC “We are creating the framework for a work plan that will allow us to combine our efforts,” Rusinque explained Colombia's Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) and China's State Administration for...
Colombia’s Clay Artist Sculpts Memory, Empathy, and Viral Conscience
LatinAmerican Post
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August 14, 2025
In a Bogotá apartment that doubles as a memorial, Edgar Humberto Álvarez molds Colombia’s pain and resilience into plastilina sculptures—turning grief into empathy, violence into testimony, and memory into something the internet can’t scroll past....
‘Historic opportunity missed’: World plastic pollution treaty talks collapse with no deal
Hong Kong Free Press
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August 15, 2025
Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday without agreement, as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge. Plastic pollution on a Lamma Island beach in...
Plastic pollution treaty talks in Geneva end without deal
BDNews24
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Delegates discussing the world's first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution failed to reach consensus, diplomats said on Friday, voicing disappointment and even rage that the 10-day talks produced no deal. Delegates had been seeking...
Fresh Del Monte forms Colombia joint venture for avocado, lime...
Food Ingredients First
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Fresh Del Monte Produce and Managro Holding announce a joint venture to expand operations in Colombia, including avocado and lime production and packing. The companies plan to increase capacity at an existing packing house in Sonsón, Antioquia....
Plastic pollution treaty talks collapse with no deal
The Manila Times
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August 15, 2025
(UPDATE) GENEVA, Switzerland — Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart on Friday as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge. Negotiators from 185 nations...
The collapse of environmental talks: petrostates blocked a global plastics deal, but we must not despair
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
By ensuring the collapse of UN talks seeking the first legally binding agreement on tackling plastic pollution, blockers in Geneva have failed the next generation. Most states are willing, even determined, to act. But the US joined petrostates...
Environmental storytelling for a Chinese audience: reporting from the Amazon rainforest with “Aunt Bear”
Greenpeace International
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August 14, 2025
Liu Min, better known as “Aunt Bear”, was one of only three independent Chinese journalists to report from the global biodiversity talks (COP16) last November in Cali, Colombia, and she was the only podcaster. She has a decade of experience as an...
Biofuels Market is Expected to Reach USD 197.72 Billion by 2032 | SkyQuest Technology Consulting
AZoCleantech
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August 18, 2025
SkyQuest Technology Consulting published a report, titled, Biofuels Market - Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2025-2032", valued at USD 117.69 Billion in 2024. With a projected CAGR of 6.7% from 2025 to 2032, the market is...
Environmental storytelling for a Chinese audience: reporting from the Amazon rainforest with “Auntie Bear”
Greenpeace International
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August 14, 2025
Liu Min, better known as “Auntie Bear”, was one of only three independent Chinese journalists to report from the global biodiversity talks (COP16) last November in Cali, Colombia, and she was the only podcaster. She has a decade of experience as...