In Albany, climate authority is not contracting. It is consolidating. The New York State Senate has passed legislation that would require large companies doing business in the state to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, moving the Empire State closer to establishing its own corporate climate reporting regime. The bill now
In Washington, the scaffolding of federal climate regulation did not collapse in a single vote. It was dismantled at its base. The Trump administration has formally repealed the 2009 “endangerment finding,” the scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health. With it, the Environmental Protection Agency eliminated federal tailpipe
In the early hours of Thursday morning in Bridgetown, the Caribbean’s easternmost nation did not just choose a leader. It reaffirmed a global reform mandate. Mia Mottley, the 60-year-old Prime Minister of Barbados, has secured her third consecutive landslide victory. Her Barbados Labour Party (BLP) swept all 30 seats in
Every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truck full of clothes is dumped into a landfill or incinerated. In Europe, between 4% and 9% of all unsold textiles, specifically items that have never been worn, are destroyed annually. This produces carbon emissions roughly equivalent to the total net output of
Dhaka woke up this week to a political landscape that had been scrubbed clean. After fifteen years of an autocratic grip that ended in the blood of a student-led uprising, Bangladesh has delivered its verdict. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has claimed a landslide victory in the country’s first competitive
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to rescind the federal government’s landmark determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare, a move that would strike at the legal foundation of nearly every major climate regulation enacted over the past two decades. Known as the “endangerment finding,” the
Bangkok woke up to a different political map. Thailand general election 2026 delivered a clear and unexpected result: a conservative surge led by Anutin Charnvirakul and the Bhumjaithai Party, vaulting the party to the largest bloc in parliament and halting what many believed was an inexorable drift toward progressive reform.
The era of Japanese political hesitation effectively ended on Sunday. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, capitalizing on her “Iron Lady” persona and a fractured opposition, steered the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a landslide victory that defies recent trends of incumbent fatigue. Projected to secure a supermajority with coalition partner Ishin,
The race to become the next United Nations Secretary-General is taking shape, but it is far from settled. With António Guterres due to step down at the end of 2026, the contest is emerging as one of the most consequential leadership decisions in modern multilateral history. It is also still
A federal judge has struck down Texas’ anti ESG law as unconstitutional, delivering a legal setback to one of the most aggressive state efforts to police sustainable finance. The ruling affirms that governments cannot punish companies for how they assess risk or express investment views. But the decision arrives after
