Author: Kathrin Meyer


Kathrin Meyer

Kathrin Meyer is currently enrolled in the Master's program "Environmental Sciences" at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. Her research focus is resource dependence and energy policy in Latin America.

A threat for the Amazon region: Colombia’s new hydropower project

by Kathrin Meyer
November 14, 2019

While in North America and Europe more hydropower plants are being dismantled than built, many countries in Latin America continue to invest in the controversial renewable energy source. In Colombia, two hydropower plants are to be installed in the Amazon region. Social-ecological and cultural costs of the project are not taken into account. Kathrin Meyer reports about the serious impacts that hydropower could have on the zone.

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How the EU-Mercosur trade deal is worsening the international climate crisis

by Kathrin Meyer
July 24, 2019

After twenty years of negotiations, the European Union is in the process of advancing one of the world’s largest free trade agreements with four states of Mercosur. The planned agreement suggests a political path that veers towards a worsening of the international climate crisis. Kathrin Meyer discusses the questionable contents of the political act, which will solidify inequality amongst the trade partners and enable the expansion of environmentally harmful methods.

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