Sebastian Rodriguez

Sebastián Rodríguez joined Climate Home News in 2022 as special projects editor. Based in San José Costa Rica, he started out as a reporter for Ojo al Clima, Central America’s first climate news outlet. He has reported on climate for Reuters, DW and Mongabay. Before joining Climate Home News, he was editor in chief at Climate Tracker.

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Delegates gathered in the plenary at the COP15 UN Biodiversity summit in Montreal.

Governments split on ditching nature-harming subsidies in Montreal

Negotiators at the Cop15 biodiversity summit in Montreal have until Friday to agree a “nature pact” that can get rid of harmful subsidies

UN nature pact nears its ‘Copenhagen or Paris’ moment

Cop15 biodiversity negotiations in Montreal next month will determine how the world halts and reverses nature loss

A girl in a purple headwrap speaks into a microphone at a desk with a Ghana badge

Cop27 bulletin: John Kerry has Covid

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Cop27 bulletin: ‘Elements’ leave much to negotiate

Lula da Silva with a hand raised to greet onlookers

Lula charms UN climate summit, bringing hope for rainforests

Brazil’s president-elect got a hero’s welcome at Cop27, where he met with climate envoys from the US and China

‘Complete contradiction’: Egypt burns dirtier fuel to sell more gas to Europe

The Cop27 host has increased its use of mazut, a heavy fuel oil, in power stations, despite its harmful impact on health and the environment

Cop27 bulletin: Xi, Biden thaw climate relations

Cop27 bulletin: Visionless summit flails into week two

Cop27 bulletin: Biden brings crumbs of support

Colombia's environment minister, Susana Muhamad, at COP27 calling for unity in Latin America

Latin America closes ranks at Cop27 around climate finance

Debt and climate shocks, combined with political shifts, have united historically left- and rightwing countries behind common asks

Cop27 bulletin: Everybody needs good neighbours

Cop27 bulletin: Could polluter taxes fund loss and damage?

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Cop27 bulletin: Meet Africa’s biggest gas fan

UN bodies are partnering with NJ Ayuk, an oil and gas lobbyist with a murky past, on a flagship African energy initiative

Costa Rican environment minister, Franz Tattenbach, ahead of COP27.

Costa Rica backs away from leading oil and gas phaseout coalition

Costa Rica, a founding member of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, won’t prioritize it at Cop27 climate talks after a change of government

Joe Biden’s abandoned climate migrant reforms leave hurricane victims stranded

The US president has not followed through with moves to resettle climate victims, leaving displaced people facing dangerous journeys

Timeline: The climate crisis through Queen Elizabeth II’s life and reign

How the world has heated, climate science has progressed and political consensus shifted in the lifetime of Britain’s longest serving Queen

‘Gigantic missed opportunity’: Chile rejects green constitution

The constitutional draft declared Chile an “ecological” state, recognised nature as a subject of rights and ordered the state to take actions against the climate crisis

drought in poyang lake, china after extreme heatwave and drought

Seen from space: Extreme drought dries up rivers across the globe

In China, Lake Poyang is just a quarter of its normal size, while in Germany, the Rhine is running at 45% of its average levels for August

Brazil election: Lula challenges Bolsonaro’s deforestation record, backs oil development

Climate is emerging as a major issue in Brazil’s presidential contest, with both leading candidates promising to protect the Amazon rainforest