Taiwan has asked to join the TPP.

This may seem like a good strategy for competing with China, but the TPP is still a business-supremacy treaty, so signing it would be bad for everyone in Taiwan except rich people.

Today's intense fires can destroy a forest permanently. Animal species can be rendered extinct.

The EU has condemned the execution of Yemenis tried by the Houthis and convicted of spying.

I join the EU in condemning the death penalty, and I'm entirely ready to believe that the Houthis can hold unfair trials in death penalty cases. After all, the US has often done so.

Salafi Arabia carries out many official executions. I expect thet the EU condemns them, too, but does that get the same amount of press coverage?

Shipping must go faster in decarbonization. Currently it is not keeping up with the Paris agreement target, which is insufficient to begin with.

Faster decarbonization may require ships to travel more slowly.

The EU has condemned the execution of Yemenis tried by the Houthis and convicted of spying.

I join the EU in condemning the death penalty, and I'm entirely ready to believe that the Houthis can hold unfair trials in death penalty cases. After all, the US has often done so.

Salafi Arabia carries out many official executions. I expect that the EU condemns them, too, but does that get the same amount of press coverage?