Climate change is having a dramatic effect on Latin America and the Caribbean. Most people in the region view climate change as a major peril. Costa Rica, Chile and 21 regional countries have announced plans to become “net-zero” emitters by 2050. Protests have rattled governments across Latin America and the Caribbean in recent months as people demand...Read More

Our relationship with the natural world is broken. We can fix it by changing our obsession with growth and consumption. A million species are threatened with extinction. When as a young man in 1948, my father, Luc Hoffmann, came down from the Swiss mountains, settled in the marshes of the Camargue and bought the Tour du Valat estate,...Read More

Thai retailers kicked off 2020 with a ban on single-use plastic bags, joining the battle against throwaway carriers in the Southeast Asian nation where citizens go through an average of eight every day. The move, taken on Wednesday by several major mall operators and the ubiquitous 7/11 convenience stores, will see customers instead paying a...Read More