High-level international climate leaders are working on what to do after the Government of Chile announced Wednesday it will not be able to host the COP25 meeting planned for Santiago in December. The decision from Chile, which has seen massive protests and unrest directed at President Sebastion Piñera over the…
China hosted a meeting of key BASIC environmental ministers at the weekend, a group that also includes South Africa, India and Brazil – all of them pressing the case to act on climate change. The South African agency was represented in Beijing by its chief climate negotiator, Maesela Kekana, and…
Former president of Chile Michelle Bachelet has officially been appointed as the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, following a vote Friday at the UN General Assembly in New York. The Bachelet announcement was warmly received by UN Secretary General António Guterres, who called her “a pioneer, a…