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Chile copper mines dodge radical changes

  Bloomberg Major copper producers from BHP to Freeport-McMoRan will likely avoid drastic changes in the way they do business in Chile as writers of a new constitution wrapped up deliberations on mining proposals. In a vote on the Constitutional Convention floor, a plan to replace the nation’s investor-friendly concession model with a system of temporary and revocable permits fell ...

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Climate change fuels more intense global wildfires

Bloomberg Already, 2022 is taking its place in a pantheon of years that have seen the nature of fire change — and all parts of the world fall under threat. It’s only expected to get worse, with drought and heat waves looming over the horizon for many parts of the globe. At the epicenter of the fury will be the ...

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The machine that brought ‘Bongbong’ to victory

  In the days following the landslide victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr, friends and colleagues in the US and Europe with memories of his father’s kleptocracy asked me how this could have happened. With all the forces working in Marcos’s favour, a more pertinent query might be: What was going to stop it? If you spent time before the Philippines’s ...

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