(AP, 1.Dec.2023) — The United Nations’ top court on Friday ordered Venezuela not to take any action that would alter Guyana’s control over a disputed territory, but did not specifically ban Venezuela...
(Petrobras, 6.Jan.2023) — Petrobras has taken another important step towards a low carbon future: it has signed an agreement with the Oil & Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP), a global...
(Reuters, 25.Oct.2022) — Top officials from the U.S. State and Treasury departments are discussing proposals for a fund that could release over $3 billion to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuelans...
(Reuters, 31.May.2022) — The United States is prepared to give "comfort letters" to shipping and insurance companies to help facilitate exports of Russian grain and fertilizer, U.S. Ambassador to the...
(France24, 21.Apr.2022) — The United Nations' top court on Thursday ordered the Colombian navy to stop interfering in Nicaraguan waters, ruling on a longstanding legal battle over maritime borders. The...
(Trinidad Express, 13.Feb.2022) — Trinidad and Tobago has been appointed to co-chair the ad hoc work programme on the new climate finance goal by president of the 26th Conference of...
(By Francisco Dallmeier and Cristina V. Burelli, 22.Feb.2021) — The political and economic ruin of Venezuela, once one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries, is by now a well-known story. Far...
(OHCHR, 12.Feb.2021) — The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, today urged the United States, European Union and other States to drop unilateral sanctions...
(OHCHR, 12.Feb.2021) — The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Ms. Alena Douhan, visited the Bolivarian Republic of...
(Maxeon, 14.Dec.2020) — Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative. The company committed to be a Signatory of the Global...
(IMF, 28.May.2020) — Opening remarks from International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at an United Nation event on financing for development in the ear of the Covid-10 pandemic....
(Reuters, 16.Jan.2020) — Colombia’s environment minister said on Thursday the Andean country will increase monitoring of its jungles and forests to fight deforestation and protect the species that call these...
(Asia Times, Vijay Prashad, 3.Dec.2019) — On Monday in Madrid, the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference – known as COP25 – began. Representatives of the world’s countries gathered to discuss...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.Dec.2019) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the media in a press briefing one day ahead of the COP25 2019 to be held in Madrid,...
(FT.com, Gideon Long, 28.Oct.2019) — Colombia’s proven oil reserves will run out within the next seven years and its gas reserves within 10. Faced with that bleak prospect, it needs...
(Reuters, Valerie Volcovici, 25.Sep.2019) — Latin American countries have set a collective target of 70% renewable energy use by 2030, more than double what the European Union is planning, Colombia’s...
(JinkoSolar, 23.Sep.2019) — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. has been invited to the UN Climate Action Summit 2019, which will be held at the UN headquarters in New York on September...
(DemeraraWaves, Denis Chabrol, 20.Dec.2018) ) — Guyana has spent GYD$780 million (US$3.7 million) from the US$18 million signing bonus from ExxonMobil on legal fees for the settlement of the border...
(AP, 6.Dec.2018) — Brazil warned Wednesday against freezing developing nations out of negotiations at the UN climate summit, suggesting this could lead to an acrimonious collapse in talks as seen...
(AP, 30.Nov.2018) — Brazil has withdrawn its offer to host a large United Nations conference on climate change next year, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, leading environmental groups to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Pietro D. Pitts, 20.Nov.2018) — Argentina’s Vaca Muerta unconventional shale gas formation in Neuquén is at the center of an energy revolution taking place...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Oct.2018) — Ecuador, with the assistance of the United Nations Organization (UN), is auditing five major oil projects promoted by former President Rafael Correa during...
(Frontera Energy Corporation, 7.Sep.2018) — Frontera Energy Corporation has been named a Canadian Sustainable Development Goals award winner for the second consecutive year by the Global Compact Network Canada, the...
(PTI, 23.Jun.2018) – India and Cuba have agreed to enhance cooperation in biotechnology, renewable energy and traditional medicine as President Ram Nath Kovind held wide-ranging talks with his Cuban counterpart...
[caption id="attachment_2842" align="alignnone" width="629"] Juhern Kim, acting representative of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in Colombia, gives a presentation on the intergovernmental organisation’s strategies. Credit: GGGI Colombia[/caption] (Inter Press...