November 6, 2025
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a ban on petrol-powered motorbikes in Hanoi, effective July 1, 2026 (AP). Pursuant to the adoption of the Paris Agreement and Vitenam’s pledge of net-zero emissions by 2050, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are tackling air emissions and the worsening pollution of fossil-fuel motorbikes (MAE II). Major […]
September 3, 2020
The global pandemic caused by COVID-19, climate change, and racism all have some unfortunate similarities. They are all global crises and they all have a death toll. They each cause the most harm to the least well-off in society, and they all lay bare our structures of social inequality. And they all are made worse […]
April 22, 2020
Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles has fired the country’s top environmental enforcement officer after a news program broadcast a dramatic raid on illegal mining in the Amazon (Reuters 1). The move appears to be the latest attempt by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to undermine the federal environment agency Ibama, which fights against deforestation […]
