Opinion

Illegal gold mining becoming the scourge of the Amazon

What can the rich countries of the world do to help preserve the Amazon? The European Parliament passed a law in April that would require companies selling commodities such as soy, beef, cocoa and coffee in the European Union to verify they were not grown on land deforested after 2020. The EU is als...

Opinion

How Lula can save the Amazon

Luiz Incio Lula da Silva has green cred. Joining the global climate summit in Egypt last November to the cry of “Brazil is back!,” the president-elect had no trouble convincing the world’s environmental intelligentsia that he could deliver on the promise to end deforestation in the...

Opinion

Looking for the world cup winner?

It’s hard not to reach a conclusion after contemplating England’s imposing $1.3 billion-plus roster. It’s the richest in the competition, roughly 80 times as valuable as the home team, Qatar, at the very bottom of the pile. If England’s scoring abilities are proportional to t...

Opinion

COP27: This is how the world can meet its climate targets

Economic development. It was the fundamental challenge of the postcolonial era, embodying an economic, political, moral imperative: How could the poor world in the global south become as rich as the rich nations of the north? The question was never satisfactorily answered. Strategies hawked from opp...