A 100% renewable electricity system would be the cheapest electricity production method for South America, and could be achieved by 2030. A study by Lappeenranta University...
Comedian Ricky Gervais and musician Moby have partnered with Animal Defenders International (ADI) to provide shoppers with an opportunity to raise money for animals in need, with the...
On World Animal Day South American authorities will be encouraged to to enforce the national and international laws protecting the endangered Spectacled or ‘Andean’ bear following a campaign...
Terra Madre Salone del Gusto is an international event dedicated to food and gastronomy. The event gives supporters of sustainable food production, believers of small-scale agriculture and...
Global food systems are increasingly susceptible to acute disruption and systemic shocks could lead to food price rises, food riots and changes in stock market values....
Africa, Australia, western US and parts of South America are among the world’s areas most at risk of the effects of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO),...
Chile has become the first South American country to introduce a tax on carbon, in a pioneering effort to tackle climate change. On Friday the Chilean...
Research conducted by consultancy firm EY has deemed the lack of access to water, especially in South America and Africa, as the greatest risk to sustainability...
Chinese president Xi Jinping has signed trade agreements with Venezuela that consist of both oil and mineral exports – as part of a four-country visit to...
The year is 2000 and Jan Levy is in Bolivia. A year into his MBA course, he had become disillusioned. Fed up of the share price-obsessed...
Virgin’s patron Richard Branson has given up eating beef as part of personal commitment to reduce his environmental footprint, as red meat is one of the...
Warming and cooling trends caused by the climatic phenomena El Niño and La Niña could significantly reduce maize, rice and wheat yields by up to 4%,...
The WWF has criticised the majority of European and UK firms that buy soy for animal feed, saying that they are not putting enough effort into...
John Fleetwood of the Cochabamba Project writes about how a sustainable investment opportunity in Bolivia is having tangible positive impacts on the local people. “We just...
As recently as the 1990s Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, was associated more with violence, drug wars and murder than sustainability. Foreigners saw the city as...