Colombia's new president, Gustavo Petro, took office last weekend, receiving a country with high fiscal deficit and debt ...

Despite launching several initiatives, the Pacific coast region suffers from lack of basic services and is in the grips of ...

Colombia must base its conservation targets on international agreements that push for annual deforestation of 100,000 ...

With conservative Duque due to hand over to his left-wing successor Gustavo Petro on Sunday ... particularly in the Amazon rainforest, but these "failed," according to former environment minister ...

Colombia will focus on combating deforestation, exerting greater control over the cattle industry and will also propose ...

Indigenous leader Antonio Matapi hopes the election of Gustavo Petro as Colombia's new president marks a historic shift towards a better future for the Amazon rainforest he calls home. Petro takes ...

The following is the English translation of Gustavo Petro's full inaugural address delivered in ... but we do have the largest absorption sponge of these gases after the oceans: the Amazon rainforest.

Her sector needs new sources of permanent funding, including carbon taxes, said Muhamad, who takes up her post on Sunday when President-elect Gustavo Petro ... of the Amazon rainforest, according ...