Uruguay and Indonesia Strengthen Trade and Renewable Energy Ties

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Uruguay's Deputy Foreign Minister, Valeria Csukasi, concluded her official visit to Indonesia from September 15–16, 2025. The visit, as stated in a press release received by Tempo on Thursday, September 18, 2025, aimed to...

Paraguay Launches First Global Alliance For Sustainable Forest Management

Paraguay has taken a historic step with the signing of its first global governmental alliance to promote sustainable forest managemen. This agreement commits the country to higher environmental standards, improved governance, and greater...

Uruguay’s green hydrogen plans raise ecological concerns in Argentina & at home

Communities in the Argentinian town of Colón worry that an upcoming major green hydrogen project on the Uruguay River will affect local ecosystems, as well as local tourism. The Paysandú e-fuels facility is one of Uruguay’s major hydrogen...

A world class experience and a big win in Uruguay

I first want to say a big thank you to everyone that reached out last week after telling the story about the internet bully that has been ongoing for two years. The conversations were so heart-warming and so incredibly positive. I also want to...

Wheat And Soybean In September: Caught In The Crossfire Of Regulation, Geopolitics And Tariffs

As we enter the final quarter of 2025, the global commodity markets for wheat and soybeans are once again proving to be highly sensitive to a complex interplay of geopolitical events, shifting trade policies, and distinctive weather patterns for...

Water: 1 in 4 without safe access. Arrojo-Agudo: the real figure is double that

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Fifteen years after the historic UN resolution that established access to safe drinking water and sanitation as a fundamental human right, the global...

FIAB Renews its Governing Bodies After Strengthening Ties at the Ibero-American Stock Exchanges Summit Held in Madrid

Member exchanges elect Juan Pablo Córdoba as president, Jorge Alegría as vice president, and Pilar Martínez as chairwoman of the Working Subcommittee during the 52nd General Assembly The event, which has brought together more than 250 people over...

Nevis Premier continues to advocate the benefits of the Special Sustainability Zone legislation

by Kevon Browne St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN)—During a recent episode of the podcast “Brown Business”, Premier of Nevis Hon. Mark Brantley shares how Nevis is charting a path for close collaboration between sustainability and economic innovation with...

Financial inclusion and education: a pillar for sustainable development in Latin America

Financial inclusion and education have emerged as key enablers for sustainable development in its environmental, social and productive dimensions. In Latin America, where high levels of informality, inequality and financial exclusion persist,...

Uruguay's Finance Minister Gabriel Oddone.

Uruguay’s new left-wing government plans to lower the budget deficit through tax increases early in its term to avoid politically contentious spending cuts or additional levies later on, according to Finance Minister Gabriel Oddone. The mandate...

INTERVIEW: Slovenia’s sovereign sustainability-linked bond could catalyse Europe’s stalled SLB market

Slovenia’s debut sustainability-linked bond (SLB) has injected fresh momentum into a market that has been losing steam, said Kevin Leung, a sustainable finance analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), in an...

Uruguay secures CAF loan for dam construction

Tuesday, September 9th 2025 - 09:51 UTC CAF's Sergio Díaz-Granados praised Uruguay's stability Uruguay's state-owned water company, OSE, has secured a US$130 million loan from the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean to finance...

S. Díez (Inexmoda) on Colombian Fashion: Competing with Value, Not Prices

From Colombia to the world, Latin American fashion aspires to consolidate its global leap with its sights set on the United States and Europe. To accelerate this process, last July, Medellin turned fashion into business with its annual edition of...

Climate Change is exacerbating child poverty in Latin America and Caribbean, says UN

The year 2025 has seen a notable intensification of the climate emergency and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued a warning that global average temperatures could surpass...

Unravelling the thread from colonial England to Uruguay in Monica Perez’s art

Jasmine Haniff visited Monica Perez in her London studio to learn about wool, traces of empire, and Indigenous erasure in the Uruguayan artist’s work. When Uruguayan artist Monica Perez moved from Los Angeles to London to undertake an MA in...

Recycle or Cut Production: The Politics of Plastics Economy

The global conference to create a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution ended in a gridlock, with many participants decrying the decision of producing parties to shift attention towards improving plastic waste management instead of...

IA’s In The Loop Podcast debuts at sister title II’s sell-out São Paulo event

IA’s popular IA In The Loop Podcast made its debut in Brazil featuring as a segment at IA’s sister title Investment International which produced its sell-out II Lat Am Forum 2025 event in São Paulo, Brazil, yesterday. The Fourth Annual Investment...

From Uruguay to Turnberry – The Return of “Aggressive Unilateralism”

The bicycle theory of trade suggests that the global trading system, much like a bicycle, must maintain steady momentum toward freer trade—any failure to move forward will condemn the multilateral system to topple over and fall due to pressures of...

NASA Data, Trainings Help Uruguay Navigate Drought

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA satellite data and trainings helped Uruguay create a drought-response tool that its National Water Authority now uses to monitor reservoirs and guide emergency decisions. A similar approach could be applied...

Top court delivers a ‘huge’ climate win for island nations

The recent advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on states’ obligations regarding climate change was celebrated globally for providing clarity on countries’ legal obligation to prevent climate harm, but was also...