Green Gazette

The new government’s promise to streamline environmental licensing processes in Honduras has emerged as one of the measures aimed at addressing administrative backlogs and project stoppages. However, beyond the argument for efficiency, this proposal sparks a substantive debate regarding the balance between administrative management and the State’s obligations concerning the environment and human rights.

Just days before the general elections of November 30, 2025, Honduras finds itself at a decisive moment in defining the course of its environmental policy for the coming years.

This June 25, 2025, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Los Horcones massacre, a tragic event that occurred in 1975 on the Los Horcones farm, located in the department of Olancho, Honduras.

The climate emergency is hitting Honduras hard. For several years now, we have been experiencing longer droughts, increasingly destructive floods, and a Caribbean coastline threatened by oil exploration.

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.