AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoMangrove Restoration Deal: Nicaragua ratified the International Mangrove Center under the Ramsar framework, aiming to restore and manage about 102,000 hectares of Pacific and Caribbean mangroves—key for coastal protection, climate resilience, and community livelihoods. Climate Heat Pressure: A Copernicus/AFP analysis found record July temperatures affecting regions home to roughly 900 million people, including Central America; El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras logged temperature records in both June and July, raising food-insecurity fears. El Niño and Hunger Risk: WFP warned intensifying El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute food insecurity by end-2027, with Central America facing the steepest relative jump. Oil Palm Warning: A GRAIN report links oil palm expansion across Latin America to deforestation, land grabbing, and violence against Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, criticizing RSPO for enabling “greenwashing.” Nicaragua Election Crackdown Watch: The OAS may hold an emergency foreign-ministers session over Nicaragua’s political rupture and crackdown concerns, after Ortega’s vow to end elections and moves affecting opposition and the Catholic Church.
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