Climate-friendly beef? Argentina’s new ‘carbon-neutral’ certification could help reduce livestock emissions – if it’s done right

Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But there are methods that can reduce their climate impact – if ranchers have incentive to use them.

Paul Winters, Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame • conversation
March 13, 2024 ~9 min

Climate-friendly beef? Argentina’s new certification could help reduce livestock emissions – if it’s done right

Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But there are methods that can reduce their climate impact – if ranchers have incentive to use them.

Paul Winters, Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame • conversation
March 13, 2024 ~9 min


Carbon-neutral beef? Argentina’s new certification could promote more climate-friendly livestock production – if it’s done right

Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But there are methods that can reduce their climate impact – if ranchers have incentive to use them.

Paul Winters, Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame • conversation
March 13, 2024 ~9 min

How Argentina’s protesters are responding to a new president who wants to end environmental protections and sell off natural resources

The ultra-right Javier Milei has already set back environmentalism by decades.

Paula Serafini, Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London • conversation
Jan. 31, 2024 ~5 min

Health on the ballot as Argentina poised to elect 'anarcho-capitalist' bent on slashing social protections

Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find resistance.

Eric D. Carter, Professor of Geography and Global Health, Macalester College • conversation
Oct. 6, 2023 ~10 min

One of 2023's most extreme heatwaves is happening in the middle of winter

Parts of Argentina and the Chilean Andes experienced some of their highest temperatures on record.

Matthew Patterson, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in in Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford • conversation
Aug. 4, 2023 ~6 min

'Global China' is a big part of Latin America’s renewable energy boom, but homegrown industries and 'frugal innovation' are key

China is a major investor in Latin America’s renewable energy and critical minerals like lithium, but countries like Chile are also taking steps to secure their own clean energy future.

Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton, Assistant Researcher in Climate Policy, Tufts University • conversation
July 5, 2023 ~10 min

Governments and environmental groups are turning to international courts to address the impacts of climate change — podcast

Governments and activist groups are bringing environmental issues to international courts. They argue that the impact of climate change and environmental issues affect human rights.

Nehal El-Hadi, Science + Technology Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation • conversation
June 1, 2023 ~6 min


China is financing infrastructure projects around the world – many could harm nature and Indigenous communities

Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.

Rebecca Ray, Senior Academic Researcher in Global Development Policy, Boston University • conversation
Sept. 20, 2021 ~11 min

Fight fire with trade: how Europe can help save the Amazon

The proposed EU-Mercosur deal would guarantee cheap beef and lock in further deforestation. But our new research shows it is possible to transform trade for the better.

Laura Kehoe, Researcher in Conservation Decision Science and Land Use, University of Oxford • conversation
Sept. 9, 2020 ~7 min

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