How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing climate change--and what threatens their leadership.

Guy Edwards is Research Fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and Codirector of the Climate and Development Lab and cofounder of Intercambio Climatico. J. Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the coauthor of A Climate of Injustice (MIT Press) and Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America.