Bogota wins award for leadership in battling climate change
The Colombian capital Bogota received the worldwide “Climate and City Leadership” award this Wednesday for innovation in public transport.
The Colombian capital Bogota received the worldwide “Climate and City Leadership” award this Wednesday for innovation in public transport.
Colombia’s snow-peaked glaciers are fading fast and may completely disappear in 30 years according to a Thursday report from Colombia’s Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM). “We lost…
Severe rainfall has broken a 40m levee, displaced 375 people and flooded 500 hectares of crops in western Colombia, reported Colombian daily El Pais Thursday. The incidents occurred in the…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday he was disappointed about the results of the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in South Africa earlier this month. In a speech,…
NASA photos reveal a reduction in green spaces in the Amazon rain forest, indicating an unprecedented drought in 2010, a study published in Spanish newspaper El Pais revealed. “The green of the…
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks in Colombia’s capital Bogota on solutions to climate change, newspaper El Espectador reported Thursday. On Wednesday, at the invitation of newspaper El Espectador and…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos calls on the G-20 to help deal with the devastating effects of Colombia’s rainy season and to implement policies to combat climate change. Santos was…
Colombia could receive $10 million, starting in January 2011, from a fund to help poor countries adapt to climate change, a Colombian negotiator at the Cancun Summit told El Espectador.…
A report from Colombia’s Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Ideam) rings alarm bells over the future of the Andean nation’s glaciers, which it says could melt within the next…