The populist and authoritarian wave that is spreading thorough the world is not directly responsible for the climate emergency that we are facing. But it is responsible for the collapse of the small number of measures that were implemented to help handle the crisis, something that is particularly evident in the case of Latin America.
There has been an emergence of ultraconservative leaders in key countries such as Brazil, which has sovereignty over more than 60% of the Amazon rainforest, and the United States, which is the second largest global contributor to polluting emissions.
But to what extent is the current undemocratic wave, we are experiencing, one of the big enemies in the fight against climate change?