Metal companies to make green payouts in Brazil

October 2018

Trade

Experts see few green gains in rewrite of Nafta

As the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) has reshaped the region’s economy over the past quarter century, environmental safeguards implemented in conjunction with the ......

Species conservation

All eyes on monarch’s Mexican wintering grounds

Favorable weather along the monarch butterfly’s migratory route and in its U.S. and Canadian summer habitat have spurred one of the imperiled insect’s largest summer ......

Human Rights

China’s rights record in region denounced in U.N.

Sergio Nahuelquir is spokesperson of Fem Mapu, one of 14 Mapuche and Tehuelche indigenous communities in Argentina’s southern province of Santa Cruz. On Oct. 11 ......

Mexico

Project restores bison—and grasslands—in Mexico

A decade ago the American bison, an icon of the North American frontier, had almost entirely disappeared from Mexico. Relentless hunting and habitat loss over ......

Brazil

Metal companies to make green payouts in Brazil

Under pressure from state and federal authorities, major steel, iron ore and aluminum producers operating in Brazil have pledged to spend a total of US$617.5 ......

Around the Region

Green-policy doubts abound in wake of Bolsonaro victory

Environmentalists are bracing for the worst following the Oct. 28 election of Jair Bolsonaro, at times a withering off-the-cuff critic of environmental regulation and land ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Region moves to rein in single-use plastic

Early last year the United Nations came as close as a peacekeeping organization can to declaring war. The enemy: ocean plastic. “It is past time ......

Q&A

UN’s Jordi Pon describes region’s waste-management challenges

Jordi Pon is chemical and waste program coordinator at the Panama-based Latin America and Caribbean regional office of UN Environment, the environmental-protection arm of the ......

Metal companies to make green payouts in Brazil

Brazil

Iron-ore storage stie at the Tubarão Complex (Photo courtesy Vale S.A.)

Under pressure from state and federal authorities, major steel, iron ore and aluminum producers operating in Brazil have pledged to spend a total of US$617.5 million on environmental upgrades and payouts to pollution-impacted communities. The agreements, reached in September, represent Brazil’s biggest private-sector payouts in recent years to address pollution problems. Brazil’s Vale, a global iron-ore giant, and the Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel maker, account for the bulk of the payouts, thanks to an agreement they reached on Sept. 21 with the Espírito Santo state Environment and Water Resources Secretariat (Seama) and state and federal prosecutors. The two companies committed to invest R$1.84 billion (US$501 million) over the next five years to cut emissions of iron... [Log in to read more]

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October 2018

Trade

Experts see few green gains in rewrite of Nafta

As the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) has reshaped the region’s economy over the past quarter century, environmental safeguards implemented in conjunction with the ......

Species conservation

All eyes on monarch’s Mexican wintering grounds

Favorable weather along the monarch butterfly’s migratory route and in its U.S. and Canadian summer habitat have spurred one of the imperiled insect’s largest summer ......

Human Rights

China’s rights record in region denounced in U.N.

Sergio Nahuelquir is spokesperson of Fem Mapu, one of 14 Mapuche and Tehuelche indigenous communities in Argentina’s southern province of Santa Cruz. On Oct. 11 ......

Mexico

Project restores bison—and grasslands—in Mexico

A decade ago the American bison, an icon of the North American frontier, had almost entirely disappeared from Mexico. Relentless hunting and habitat loss over ......

Brazil

Metal companies to make green payouts in Brazil

Under pressure from state and federal authorities, major steel, iron ore and aluminum producers operating in Brazil have pledged to spend a total of US$617.5 ......

Around the Region

Green-policy doubts abound in wake of Bolsonaro victory

Environmentalists are bracing for the worst following the Oct. 28 election of Jair Bolsonaro, at times a withering off-the-cuff critic of environmental regulation and land ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Region moves to rein in single-use plastic

Early last year the United Nations came as close as a peacekeeping organization can to declaring war. The enemy: ocean plastic. “It is past time ......

Q&A

UN’s Jordi Pon describes region’s waste-management challenges

Jordi Pon is chemical and waste program coordinator at the Panama-based Latin America and Caribbean regional office of UN Environment, the environmental-protection arm of the ......