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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 “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...
Global plastic pollution treaty talks collapse over lack of consensus
The Express Tribune
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August 15, 2025
Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge. Negotiators from 185 nations worked beyond Thursday's deadline...
Three reasons plastic pollution treaty talks ended in disagreement and deadlock (but not collapse)
The Conversation
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August 15, 2025
The latest round of negotiations for a UN global plastics treaty has ended without a deal. After more than three years of talks, deep divisions remain. Agreement is only marginally closer than before talks began. For many countries, campaigners...
Peacebuilding: The Missing Peace in COP30 Climate Ambition
Inter Press Service
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August 15, 2025
Climate Action, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, Migration & Refugees, Peace, Poverty & SDGs, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Credit: Food production in...
U.N. global plastics pollution summit ends without agreement in Geneva
United Press International (UPI)
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A 20-foot-tall take on Rodin's iconic "Thinker" sculpture pictured Friday outside U.N. headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, as an 8-day effort to agree a global plastic pollution treaty wound down. The art installation featuring plastic waste by...
Landmark plastics treaty falls apart as nations fail to find consensus for pollution
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 15, 2025
Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution have ended without agreement as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge. Negotiators from 185 nations worked beyond Thursday's...
World plastic pollution treaty talks collapse
Punch
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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. Negotiators from 185 nations worked beyond...
Colombian Army opens forward airfield to secure northern frontier and Caribbean approaches
Defense News Security News Army Recognition
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According to information published by El Tiempo on August 10, 2025, the Colombian Army has officially inaugurated the Buenavista airfield in Uribia, La Guajira, establishing a new strategic hub for security and logistical operations in the...
Colombia Offers 15-Year Contracts in Country’s First Offshore Wind Round
Offshore Wind
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August 13, 2025
Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued a new resolution launching the country’s first offshore wind bidding round, which will operate under a contract for differences (CfD) scheme. The round is designed to promote strategic...
Plastic pollution treaty stalled as Geneva talks end without deal
Engineering News
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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...
World plastic pollution treaty talks collapse with no deal
Sierra County Sentinel - New Mexico
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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. Negotiators from 185 nations worked beyond...
IFC to finance $220 mn Colombian trade route upgrade
Fibre 2 Fashion
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced the financing of the Buga–Loboguerrero–Buenaventura (BLB) concession in Colombia. This project, awarded in 2022 to SACYR, is a brownfield toll road that...
Colombia launches first offshore wind round with 15-year deals up for grabs
Splash 247
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August 13, 2025
Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued a new resolution, which launches the first round of offshore wind bidding. The round, which will operate under a contract for differences (CfD) scheme, is designed to promote strategic...
UN, Rockefeller propose ‘Nature ID’: A DPI stack for biodiversity
The Sociable
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August 14, 2025
Backed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations and its partners propose creating a “Nature ID” that would serve as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) that could facilitate carbon market traceability and biodiversity credit schemes....
First Look: Casa Carolina Marries Modernity With Centuries-Old Heritage In Cartagena, Colombia
Forbes
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Casa Carolina's interior courtyard, with one of two swimming pools. Casa Carolina Gabriel García Márquez once said that all of his works have loose threads of connection to Cartagena, the vibrant and vivacious capital that was the muse of his...
Companies are granted personhood; why not nature?
Taipei Times
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August 18, 2025
It is a well-accepted quirk of law that corporations have the right to own property, enter into contracts and sue each other — just like an actual person. Ships also enjoy the perks of legal personhood. So it is not too much of a stretch to...
Dramatic increase in humidity due to climate change putting people's health at risk, report finds
Irish Examiner
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August 14, 2025
Climate change drove record levels of global humidity in 2024, posing a rising risk to people's health, a new report has warned.The latest 'State of the Climate' report published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) found...
Colombian Senator and Presidential Pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay dies after two months in critical condition After He Was Shot in June at Campaign Rally
The Gateway Pundit
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August 11, 2025
The death of Colombian senator and presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, which occurred today, August 11, 2025, after two months in critical condition due to an armed attack, has shaken Colombia and the continent. On this day of deep...
Our Work in Latin America and the Caribbean Has Only Just Begun
The Rockefeller Foundation
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August 18, 2025
“Local people and partners have to be part of the work we do,” she says. “We come with a well-respected brand, but we need community engagement and to listen to their knowledge. You can only do that here; it can’t happen in an office in D.C.” The...