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From Santa Marta: Colombia Puts the Future of Fossil Fuels on the Global Agenda
SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA | APRIL 2026 – RFM PRODUCTIONS As governments gather on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, RFM Productions examines what the world’s first international conference dedicated to transitioning away from fossil fuels could mean for Latin America, the Amazon and communities living on the front lines of extraction. This week, the global debate over fossil […]
The Silent Climate Majority: Why RFM Productions Is Joining The 89 Percent Project
The Silent Climate Majority: Why RFM Productions Is Joining The 89 Percent Project For decades, climate reporting has focused on the science of rising temperatures, extreme weather, and biodiversity loss. These stories are essential, but they often overlook another important story—one that offers hope. What if the greatest obstacle to climate action isn’t a lack […]
Beyond COP30: Why the Amazon Has Become the Defining Test of Global Climate Policy
The Amazon Conundrum: Natural Wealth Amid Extractive Pressures Last year’s COP30 conversations in the Brazilian Amazon marked a critical turning point in global climate diplomacy. Indigenous leaders, environmental defenders, scientists, youth organizers, and frontline communities succeeded in pushing conversations about fossil fuel expansion, territorial protection, and climate justice into the center of international debate. This […]
Brazil’s Soybean Boom: Powering the World, Pressuring the Planet
Brazil’s Soybean Boom: Powering the World, Pressuring the Planet Brazil is experiencing one of the most dramatic agricultural transformations in modern history. Once known for coffee and sugarcane, the country is now the world’s largest producer and exporter of soybeans, shaping global food systems from poultry feed in Asia to biofuels in Europe. But behind […]
Case Study: Brazil’s Sustainable-Tourism Shift — What the World Can Learn
Case Study: Brazil’s Sustainable-Tourism Shift — What the World Can Learn Why This Matters As global attention to climate change intensifies, how countries integrate environmental protection, local economies, and tourism becomes a central question. In 2025, Brazil — a country with extraordinary biodiversity, vast forests, and deeply rooted traditional communities — is actively reimagining tourism. […]
Why the Amazon Matters to the Planet — And Why Its Protection Can’t Wait
Why the Amazon Matters to the Planet — And Why Its Protection Can’t Wait The Amazon Rainforest is more than a biome. It is a planetary life-support system. Stretching across nine countries and home to the world’s largest tropical forest, the Amazon regulates global climate, protects biodiversity found nowhere else on Earth, and sustains the […]
The History and Importance of Quilombos in Brazil — and How RFM Is Working With Quilombola Communities to Address Climate Change
The History and Importance of Quilombos in Brazil — and How RFM Is Working With Quilombola Communities to Address Climate Change Across Brazil, quilombos stand as powerful symbols of resistance, cultural resilience, and environmental stewardship. Born from the struggle for freedom, these communities continue to protect their heritage while defending some of the country’s most […]
The Amazon is Under Attack: Nearly 300 Environmental Defenders Murdered — And the Fight for Justice Continues
The Amazon is Under Attack: Nearly 300 Environmental Defenders Murdered — And the Fight for Justice Continues Venezuela has crossed a devastating threshold: its last surviving glacier — the Humboldt Glacier (also known as La Corona) in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida — has shrunk so much that scientists no longer consider it a glacier.With […]
A Great Sadness’: Venezuela Has Lost All Its Glaciers
RFM meets with Mayi Andrehina Rondon Roa, Geographer –Ministry of Popular Power for Productive Agriculture and Lands Venezuela ‘A Great Sadness’: Venezuela Has Lost All Its Glaciers Venezuela has crossed a devastating threshold: its last surviving glacier — the Humboldt Glacier (also known as La Corona) in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida — has shrunk […]
Stop Leaving So Many Tracks! Why Your Carbon Footprint Really Matters
Stop Leaving So Many Tracks! Why Your Carbon Footprint Really Matters By Jacob Fries & Camilla Fezzi Learn why your carbon footprint matters and explore three impactful ways—transportation, diet, and energy use—to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. In 2023 alone, humanity released over 23,849 million metric tons of greenhouse gases (GHGs)—primarily […]
