Justin Catanoso

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Justin Catanoso is a professor of the practice at Wake Forest University and director of its journalism program from 2011-2016. His environmental reporting is often supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C., and the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest.

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Interfaith leaders step up to protect the world’s ‘sacred’ rainforests

Justin Catanoso 17 Sep 2019

Gov’t takedown of illegal gold mining in Peru shows promise, but at a cost

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2019

Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 19 Jun 2019

EU sued to stop burning trees for energy; it’s not carbon neutral: plaintiffs

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2019

COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Trumpers tout clean coal; protesters call it ‘climate suicide’

Justin Catanoso 11 Dec 2018

COP24: US, Russia, Saudis downplay IPCC report in display of disunity

Justin Catanoso 10 Dec 2018

COP24: World’s nations gather to grapple with looming climate disaster

Justin Catanoso 3 Dec 2018

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: report

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2018

‘Guardians of the forest:’ Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2018

Putting the action in the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2018

Climate mitigation has an ally in need of recognition and land rights: indigenous peoples in tropical countries

Justin Catanoso 10 Sep 2018
The once threatened black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) is recovering and now listed as ‘conservation dependent’ on the IUCN Red List. Photo courtesy Jason Houston/Upper Amazon Conservancy.

In Peru, a new president is faced with old conservation challenges

Justin Catanoso 2 Aug 2018

UN forest accounting loophole allows CO2 underreporting by EU, UK, US

Justin Catanoso 2 May 2018

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Consensus grows: climate-smart agriculture key to Paris Agreement goals

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2017

A reflection on COP23: Incremental progress but no industrialized country’s top priority (commentary)

Justin Catanoso 22 Nov 2017

COP23: Leaders vie for protection of ‘incredibly important’ African peatland

Justin Catanoso 17 Nov 2017

COP23: Alliance pledges an end to coal; other key summit goals unmet

Justin Catanoso 17 Nov 2017

COP23: U.S., wealthy nations curtail climate aid for developing world

Justin Catanoso 16 Nov 2017

COP23: Trump team leads ‘surreal’ coal-gas-nuke climate summit panel

Justin Catanoso 14 Nov 2017

COP23: Voices from America’s Pledge; in their own words

Justin Catanoso 13 Nov 2017

U.S. subnationals shoulder climate role in Bonn, Trump sidelined

Justin Catanoso 13 Nov 2017

Global climate change increasing risk of crop yield losses and food insecurity in the tropical Andes

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2017

COP23: Trump, U.S. govt. seen as irrelevant to global climate action

Justin Catanoso 7 Nov 2017

Carbon sequestration role of savanna soils key to climate goals

Justin Catanoso 1 Nov 2017

Colombia, an example to world, balances conservation and development

Justin Catanoso 9 Oct 2017

Colombian president honored in Washington, D.C. for efforts to protect biodiversity

Justin Catanoso 25 Sep 2017

On poaching in South Africa, education “has saved more wildlife than any guard with a gun”

Justin Catanoso 13 Jul 2017

People of all faiths face climate change with hope, action, urgency

Justin Catanoso 13 Jun 2017

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