In December 2015, Lake Poopo was officially declared evaporated. This will affect the lives of hundreds of people, which have lost their livelihoods and gone.

Following the adoption of the new Paris Agreement on climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said government representatives made history.

More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, UNICEF said in a report released ahead of the 21st United Nations climate change conference, known as COP21.

Peruvian Minister of Environment, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, which hosted the UN climate talks in Lima, says he’s optimistic as developed countries and emerging economies are in agreement to take action on carbon emissions.