In 2025, FARN celebrates its 40th anniversary: four decades of work closely with communities, organizations, journalists, academic institutions, and activists in defending the environment and human rights to uphold and strengthen the environmental agenda in Argentina.
Some of the people who are now part of our network—as well as those who contributed to FARN in earlier years—helped us tell the story of these 40 years of environmentalism and organizational work. From different perspectives and experiences, they reflect on the past, present, and future of the environmental agenda, while underscoring the importance of organizations like FARN continuing to grow in a world marked by climate and ecological crises.
The launch of the 2025 Environmental Report (IAF 2025) gave us the perfect opportunity to celebrate our anniversary. At an event that brought together more than 150 participants from civil society organizations, grassroots communities, the media, politics, and environmental leaders, we presented the 17th edition of the IAF—one of Argentina’s longest-standing and most influential environmental publications.
This year’s report brings together over 40 contributions from academics, members of Indigenous Peoples, grassroots assemblies, social movements, and civil society organizations, offering a journey through the environmental and climate agenda, its historical milestones, current debates, and future perspectives. En un contexto de regresión de las políticas ambientales, we set ourselves the challenge of reimagining the future and better understanding the decisions we must make today to shape it.
But we had more stories to tell: 40 years is a long time and Argentina has undergone profound changes in its environmental and human rights agenda over recent decades. That is why we dedicated our biannual magazine, Pulso Ambiental, to exploring FARN’s work and its deep ties the local, regional and international environmental movements. This special issue revisits the milestones of Argentina’s environmental history and retraces the path FARN began four decades ago, when it pioneered environmental law publications in Argentina and the region.
Over these 40 years, we have walked alongside, built with, and learned from people, communities, and organizations who sustain life and defend the collective good. With every report, campaign, and alliance, we have seeked to contribute to a fairer, more inclusive, and sustainable future. We are ready to embrace another forty, with the conviction that the coming years are decisive to shape the world we want to live in, with environmental justice and human rights for all.