Despite launching several initiatives, the Pacific coast region suffers from lack of basic services and is in the grips of ...

The following is the English translation of Gustavo Petro's full inaugural address delivered in ... but we do have the largest absorption sponge of these gases after the oceans: the Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous leader Antonio Matapi hopes the election of Gustavo Petro as Colombia's new president marks a historic shift towards a better future for the Amazon rainforest he calls home. Petro takes ...

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Colombia will focus on combating deforestation, exerting greater control over the cattle industry and will also propose ...

Climate change is emerging as a major theme in Brazil's presidential election, with both leading candidates promising to ...

Her sector needs new sources of permanent funding, including carbon taxes, said Muhamad, who takes up her post on Sunday when President-elect Gustavo Petro ... of the Amazon rainforest, according ...

Colombia's new president, Gustavo Petro, took office last weekend, receiving a country with high fiscal deficit and debt ...