Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution

With the region's countries among the most vulnerable to the climate crisis, digital entrepreneurs have been inspired to find innovative ways to create real environmental change

Leo Prieto's passion for nature started during his childhood by the sea. I was obsessed with what was under the surface. I'd anchor myself to a rock with my snorkel, and I was fascinated by all the little animals doing things that go unnoticed."

His teenage years coincided with the arrival of the internet in Chile, where he became a web pioneer, launching and selling several startups. Inevitably, his interests in the environment, the internet and business merged, driven by the feeling that technological advances should not be wasted.