Americas | SEI

Climate litigation in the hydrocarbon sector: perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean

Solar, wind power and energy communities in Colombia: 2025 policy overview

Aerial view of Monterrey, Mexico, featuring a wide sprawl of buildings in the foreground and mountains on the horizon under a lightly clouded blue sky

Geographic SDG spillovers: how state-level policies influence the metropolitan level in Monterrey

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presentation in Chiclayo, Peru. Photo credit: SEI

Building talent and networks: Water projects recruit young South American researchers

Feature

1 September 2016 / About Participation, Planning and modelling and Water resources

Oil pump jacks

Nailing down the numbers on impacts of oil and gas subsidy reform

Perspective / As pressure mounts for countries to end fossil fuel subsidies, a reliable assessment of potential financial impacts will be crucial to guide policy.

29 August 2016 / About Finance, Fossil fuels and Mitigation

A new orchard planted in 2016 outside of Davis, Calif.

Creating a shared understanding of ‘sustainability’ among California water users

Feature

25 August 2016 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water resources

A wooden bridge in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon

How does hybrid governance emerge? Role of the elite in building a green municipality in the eastern Brazilian Amazon

Journal article

5 August 2016 / About Cities, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles

The statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Towards more spatially explicit assessments of virtual water flows: linking local water use and scarcity to global demand of Brazilian farming commodities

Journal article

19 July 2016 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Supply chains, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Soybean root nodules. Yellow on black background.

Land use intensification in the humid tropics increased both alpha and beta diversity of soil bacteria

Journal article

2 July 2016 / About Food and agriculture and Forests

Waterfall in the Amazon jungle in Brazil

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

Journal article

29 June 2016 / About Forests

Wildfires degrade forest in Santarem of Paragominas, in the state of Pará. Photo by Adam Ronan.

Forest degradation sharply undercuts benefit of Brazil Amazon conservation

Feature

29 June 2016 / About Ecosystems, Forests, Land use and Mitigation

Aerial view of a coal mine

Raising the bar on mining: can Colombia’s government rise to local expectations?

Perspective / Companies and government must do their part to clean up Colombia’s mining industry and recognize that local communities deserve a strong voice.

29 June 2016 / About Ecosystems, Land use and Public policy