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Catherine Osborn
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Journalist and author of Foreign Policy's Latin America Brief
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and the IDB’s mechanism for channeling private money toward countries' national climate plans.

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Local Meets Global at COP30 in Belém
Latin American climate solutions are on display at the annual summit.
foreignpolicy.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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the profile of issues like tech transfer and green industrialization within the broader climate debate.

If political divisions weaken the main summit decision, will these and other side initiatives still make meaningful progress? A dispatch from Belém:

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Brazil Tries to Keep Climate Cooperation Alive
At COP30, the global energy transition is moving forward without the United States.
foreignpolicy.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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forest conservation that is expected to be in the spotlight at COP30.

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Amazon Summit Shows Scant Progress
A meeting of rainforest countries offers a preview of COP30.
foreignpolicy.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Thank you!
August 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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but also discomfort with transfer systems outside the dollar ecosystem. This week, Paul Krugman wrote that PIX might be “the future of money.”

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Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?
And will it ever come to America?
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July 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM