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Latin America’s climate to-do list after COP26

16-11-2021 16:23 Following intense talks, governments will now have to deliver on a set of commitments announced at the UK climate summit, from decarbonisation to ending deforestation

COP26 climate deal clinched as nations rally to compromise

13-11-2021 17:13 Nearly 200 nations came together Saturday on a global deal to combat climate change after two weeks of painful negotiation, but fell short of what science says is needed to contain dangerous temperature rises.

Fernández asks Biden for ‘greater flexibility’ in restructuring IMF debt

05-11-2021 18:22 Debt with the multilateral credit organisation was the main issue of the presidential agenda during his European tour to Rome and Glasgow.

Foreign policy in debt

05-11-2021 18:13 T​​he current administration is a fragmented coalition projecting all its internal splits into external policy, with the result that its diplomatic discourse not only continues to be isolationist, self-indulgent and anachronistic but also ambiguous, inconsistent and unpredictable.

President: 'Argentina can't pay IMF US$19 billion next year'

31-10-2021 23:12 "It is evident that Argentina cannot pay US$19 billion next year. We are working so that we can achieve an agreement that is sustainable," says President Fernández.

G20 disappoints on key climate target as eyes turn to Glasgow

31-10-2021 22:57 G20 major economies commit key goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but negotiators had to water down initial proposals to get everyone to sign off on final communiqué.

Is all the world a stage or something more?

29-10-2021 21:51 In general, green thinking in Argentine politics spells greenbacks rather than environmental conservation – a tendency underlined by the total absence of the issue in the electoral debates earlier this month.

Fernández flies to Rome for G20 with a dozen bilaterals on his agenda

29-10-2021 01:28 President has meetings lined up with Kristalina Georgieva, Angela Merkel, Pedro Sánchez, Úrsula von der Leyen, Queen Máxima and the director-general of the World Health Organisation, among others.

by Rosario Ayerdi

As COP26 nears, the toughest goals are still out of reach

25-10-2021 09:51 With seven days to go until global climate talks kick off in Glasgow, the chances of success remain decidedly mixed.

Sebastião Salgado: 'Nature is capable of rebuilding if we stop the destruction'

19-10-2021 09:33 Putting a price on nature after nine years in the Amazon – an interview with documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado.