Countries set out 12 month plan to speed up industry emission cuts
London, UKReuters Countries representing more than half of the global economy on Friday specified the steps they will take to help accelerate the low-carbon transition by cutting emissions in sectors including power, transport and steel. Announced at the COP27 climate talks in the coastal Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the United States, Germany, Japan and […]
Dams, taps running dry in northern Mexico amid historic water shortages
Monterrey, Mexico Reuters Her elderly neighbour is hard of hearing so Maria Luisa Robles, a convenience store worker in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, shouted the question a second time: Have you run out of water? She had – and it wasn’t just her. The taps across this working-class neighbourhood of Sierra Ventana dried […]
Canada votes to collect data to document “environmental racism”
Toronto, CanadaThomson Reuters Foundation Canada will collect data on the impact on siting a disproportionate number of polluting industries and landfills in areas inhabited by racial minority communities, federal lawmakers voted Wednesday. The bill aims to tackle “environmental racism”, where Indigenous, Black and other racial minority communities are exposed to higher levels of dirty air, […]