Europe | Germany | Corruption

Germany’s Merkel calls for global emissions trading system

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Saturday for the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS), the bloc's flagship policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, to become a global system. Thousands of power plants, factories and airlines in Europe have to surrender an allowance for every tonne of heat-trapping gas emitted. However, a surplus of allowances has depressed their price on the ETS and has made it cheaper to burn coal than to switch to greener fuels. "This instrument would of course be particularly effective if we could introduce it beyond Europe because then we'd have the s
Africa | Uganda | Environment

Women in Uganda Can’t Use Toilets Without Fear of Disease or Rape

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Mary Businge was in the doctor's seat, diagnosing a patient, when the municipal workers arrived. They were in a foul mood as they rolled up their sleeves and descended into a trench filled with sewage. The trench, stretching across the Nankulabye slum in Uganda's capital city Kampala, was where the slum's roughly 40,000 residents dropped their waste: discarded cans, torn shoes, playing cards, cigarette butts, documents, sanitary napkins, and bags containing feces. When it rained, the acrid water rose like a breathing thing, and so the city government sent their workers to empty the trench.