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City of London named global climate action leader (again)
Environment Journal
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June 6, 2025
The epicentre of the UK capital has won the accolade for a second year running. Square Mile governing body, the City of London Corporation, has been ranked on the ‘A-List’ by non-profit Carbon Disclosure Project [CDP]. The authority placed...
Mexico: Manufacturing PMI hits highest reading since December 2024 in May; non-manufacturing PMI rises
FocusEconomics
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June 4, 2025
Mexico Economic Outlook Continental powerhouse: Mexico is the second-largest economy in Latin America and the fourth-largest in the Americas, with a nominal GDP of over USD 1.5 trillion. Mexico is also the third most populous country in the...
India’s Clean Energy Expertise Fuels South America’s Bioeconomy: Praj Industries to Collaborate with Enersur S.A. For a Biorefinery Project in Paraguay
Business Upturn
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June 5, 2025
Pune, Maharashtra, India: Enersur S.A., one of Paraguay’s foremost renewable energy companies has selected Praj Industries for its next major project. Praj, a global leader in bioeconomy-driven process solutions, will support the development,...
Petrobras Targets Africa as Its Main Exploration Area Outside Brazil
Offshore Engineer News
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June 6, 2025
Petrobras aims to make Africa its main region of development outside Brazil, the state-run oil giant's CEO told Reuters on Thursday during a wide-ranging interview about the company's strategy. Ivory Coast has extended the "red carpet" for...
Nigeria’s deadly flood exposes urgent need for climate adaptation plan
Climate Home News
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June 6, 2025
When the rain began falling in late May, Usman Ndagi thought it was like every other downpour since the start of the rainy season in his hometown of Mokwa. But what seemed at first like harmless rain has brought days of devastation for himself and...
'Cocaine sharks' found off the coast of Brazil - strange but true tale of ocean pollution gone awry
Earth.com
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Hollywood once spun a wild yarn about “Cocaine Bear,” a hapless black bear that gorged itself on lost narcotics. It turns out the plot has a saltwater sequel. In coastal Brazil, “cocaine sharks” – petite Brazilian sharpnose sharks – are cruising...
Spain’s imports of Venezuelan oil dry up ahead of US sanctions deadline
KFGO - North Dakota
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June 6, 2025
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain didn’t import crude oil from Venezuela in April, ahead of a key sanctions deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. Spain’s largest oil company Repsol is among foreign firms operating in Venezuela whose...
COSCO Shipping launches new service to South America
Port Technology International
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June 5, 2025
COSCO Shipping has announced that the 62,000-dwt multi-purpose pulp carrier COSCO SHIPPING Changqing embarked from Nansha Port in Guangzhou, loaded with 660 new energy vehicles and containerised cargo. This marked the inaugural voyage of COSCO...
Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders
Mongabay
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June 6, 2025
A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell Mongabay. Adilso Cruz, a 46-year-old rancher from the Alecrim settlement in...
US vessel that fished illegally in Mexico reveals gaps in environmental law enforcement
El País
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June 6, 2025
In 2017, the Revillagigedo Archipelago became the largest fully protected marine reserve in North America. That year, the Mexican government granted it the most restrictive conservation status under its legislation, and prohibited both fishing and...
Experts call for urgent action to battle climate change at int'l ecological forum in U.S.
Xinhua News Agency
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LOS ANGELES, June 6 (Xinhua) -- The 18th International Forum on Ecological Civilization kicked off Thursday at Pomona College in the U.S. city of Claremont, as ecological experts around the world warned that mankind needs to take more drastic...
Brazil Prosecutors Move to Halt $180M Amazon Carbon Deal
OCCRP
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June 5, 2025
Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a $180 million carbon credit agreement between the Amazonian state of Pará and an international climate finance group, arguing that the state failed to properly consult...
CBL, World Bank Validate Mainstream Climate Change into Liberia’s Financial Sector
Liberian Observer
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In a decisive step toward strengthening Liberia’s financial system against climate-related shocks, the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), with support from the World Bank, on Thursday, June 5, convened a one-day national workshop to validate a...
Brazil’s Lula calls on France to ratify MERCOSUR trade deal with EU
Ghana News Agency
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June 5, 2025
During a visit to Paris, Lula called on President Emmanuel Macron to approve the agreement without further delay. “I will assume the presidency of MERCOSUR on June 6. I want to tell you that I will not leave the MERCOSUR presidency without...
Carlo Ancelotti celebrates ‘special’ start as Brazil tenure begins with dull draw
The Independent
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June 6, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Venezuela, Popular Power and Coffee
Venezuelanalysis
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June 5, 2025
Venezuelan communes are fighting fierce competition and diesel shortages to produce coffee. (Venezuelanalysis) In a remote part of Sanare, a municipality in Northeast Venezuela, 18 communes got together to form the Indirect Social Property Company...
My Word: A toxic environment against Israel
The Jerusalem Post
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June 6, 2025
A blood libel is born. Israel is being accused of a new evil. According to the headline of an “exclusive” report in The Guardian, the “Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries.” The story – more of a narrative...
Colombia reports 33% drop in deforestation in early 2025, with major progress in Amazon parks
AOL
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia saw a 33% drop in deforestation in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year, the environment ministry said Thursday, citing stronger community coordination and a crackdown on environmental...
Carlo Ancelotti's debut as Brazil coach ends in lacklustre draw against Ecuador
India Today
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June 6, 2025
Carlo Ancelotti had a lacklustre debut as the new Brazil national team coach as his side were held to a 0-0 draw by Ecuador in the South American World Cup qualifiers on Thursday, June 5. The result has already put Ancelotti under pressure after...
Record amounts of Sargassum are floating in the Caribbean Sea
Tech Explorist
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June 6, 2025
Since 2011, vast blooms of pelagic Sargassum have been invading the tropical Atlantic, piling up on the shores of West Africa and the Caribbean, triggering health concerns and economic headaches for coastal communities. But why does this happen...