Lying at the foothills of several active volcanoes, the colonial-era town of Antigua is a fitting meeting point for civil society groups gathering in Guatemala from across Central America to prepare for one of the most consequential United Nations climate change conferences in a decade.
States attending Cop30 in Brazil in November will set the climate change roadmap for the next 10 years, as the world moves closer to catastrophic levels of warming.
Against a backdrop of international aid cuts and rising authoritarianism, the Vulnerable Central America Forum has drawn delegations of NGOs from some of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.
The conference was organised by the Guatemalan NGO ASEDE, which focuses on com
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