DFID jumps ship as tides rise in Latin America
Over the next two years, the UK’s Department for International Development will be closing its regional offices in Bolivia and Nicaragua. These regional hubs provide the focal point for most of DFID’s...
View ArticlePrince Charles visits Latin America to discuss climate change
As Latin American countries gear up to celebrate their bicentenary anniversaries of independence from colonial rule, an unexpected member of a European royal family arrives to discuss climate change....
View ArticleUK Foreign Office: Latin America at the heart of a Copenhagen agreement
The UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, told Latin American journalists from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, that a politically binding deal on climate change will only be struck with the agreement of...
View ArticleGeorge Canning would be mighty chuffed…or would he?
The 19th century British Foreign Secretary, George Canning, is renowned as a great liberal statesman who “called the New World into existence”. The current British Foreign Secretary, William Hague,...
View ArticlePoles Apart – The international reporting of climate change scepticism (2011)
Poles Apart is a wide-ranging comparative study on the prevalence of climate scepticism in the media around the world. It focuses on newspapers in Brazil, China, France, India, the UK, and the USA, but...
View ArticleLatin American scientists can play a greater role in promoting robust climate...
By Guy Edwards, Victoria Elmore* and Jin Hyung Lee** The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) is underway and is due to be completed by 2013/14. There are...
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