Green Gazette

In the midst of an already strained climate of citizen distrust towards institutions, the National Congress of Honduras has put on the table a bill that would allow for express environmental licensing.

2025 is a crucial year for Honduras. At the polls, citizens will have the opportunity to elect new leaders who will define the country's direction in the coming years.

The conferences of the parties within the framework of international treaties, such as the recent COP 16 on biodiversity and COP 29 on climate change, are important spaces for coordination between States, but they are increasingly becoming more relevant. encourages the participation of civil society, whose demands seek to ground the negotiations in the implementation of measures that have a true impact on the communities most affected by the triple planetary environmental crisis.

In the 21st century, the fight to preserve the environment, summarized in mitigating the effects of climate change, stopping the loss of biodiversity and reversing pollution, has become one of the greatest global challenges.

The defense of life, water, territory and others
rights by brave Honduran men and women, with commitment, permanent struggle and
courage is repaid by murdering them.

The proposal to build the maximum security prison on the Swan Islands was promoted
through the National Defense and Security Council (CNDS) of the Government of the current president
Xiomara Castro, after the massacre of forty-one six women in the National Women's Penitentiary of Social Adaptation (PNFAS) in the month of June of the year 2023. The proposal arises justifying itself in the crisis of the Honduran prison system, seeking to send away the leaders of organizations criminals and involved in corruption issues. The maximum security prison would have a capacity of two thousand prisoners.

Mid-month and we are still waiting for the rains, literally, like “May water”. And while there are several reasons to want it to rain, we are particularly pressed by one: air pollution, which has reached alarming levels and has remained almost unchanged for several weeks now.

For several years, the Environmental Law Institute of Honduras (IDAMHO) has presented requests to the Supreme Court of Justice for the creation of specialized courts in environmental matters...

In the month of December, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) also known as COP 28 was held. The Conference was held in Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates, a nation recognized worldwide for its massive oil production industry. This also called “black gold” has made this country one of the richest in the world. But, with the current state of the climate emergency, it is inevitable to ask: at the cost of what?