In December, Peru will host the 20th annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The goal of the meeting is to work toward developing a new legally binding international treaty that will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2020.
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How Peru is bringing brains back home.
Maria Corina Machado says the Venezuelan government can’t sack her.
How archaeologists are using drones to protect Lima’s pre-Colombian ruins.
Peru’s counting its citizens of African descent to include them, and empower them.
More than 2,000 Peruvian women say they were sterilised against their will in the late 1990s. They are still demanding justice.
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The government of Peru is going ahead with the expansion of a controversial gas project in an Amazonian reserve for indigenous people.
The next UN climate change summit will be in Peru, one of nearly 200 countries which has committed to cutting its carbon emissions. See how the illicit trade in gold is driving Amazon deforestation and climate change.
Peru’s first ever survey of its African-descended population hopes to get the statistics needed to improve their opportunities.