This Central American country of 14 million doesn’t make the list of the world’s top carbon emitters. But it is one of the countries that will suffer most from climate change.
Guatemala’s Otto Pérez Molina says the region desperately needs a change of course from the international anti-drug policy promoted by the United States for the past 40 years.
Guatemala is one of the lowest per-capita generators of carbon emissions in Latin America, but one of the countries most at-risk for the consequences of climate change.
Last year, foreign investment in Guatemala grew by 25 percent and, with the government’s recent reforms to the country’s employment law and judicial security, analysts are predicting an additional 15 percent growth this year.
