Will Brazil Destroy the Amazon to Save the Climate?
Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt for minerals. Colonial fortune hunters and their legions of pick-and-pan-wielding slaves ...
Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt for minerals. Colonial fortune hunters and their legions of pick-and-pan-wielding slaves ...
For decades, China was a leader in international climate negotiations. But that changed at the latest United Nations climate change conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. At the November 2022 summit, ...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: How an ongoing heat wave is interrupting life and business in South America, four countries launch a joint bid to ...
Recently, FP’s Robbie Gramer reported from the Brazilian Amazon, where rampant deforestation threatens to transform the rainforest into a savanna—and thus jeopardize global efforts to rein in climate change. “As ...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz makes overtures in South America, the Venezuelan government and opposition move closer to resuming talks, and ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Unpacking Ethiopia’s peace deal, a corruption ruling in the Glencore scandal, and Nigeria’s new bank notes lead to currency-market chaos. ...
Egypt began hosting the United Nations climate change summit (known as COP27) this week. In preparatory meetings, its government has criticized the hypocrisy of high-emission countries that are failing to ...