MARSEILLE: Should 80 percent of the Amazon be declared a protected area by 2025? The world’s top conservation body is poised to decide whether its 1,400 members can vote on this controversial proposal, put forward by indigenous groups. 

MARSEILLE: Newly-armed with voting rights, indigenous peoples have come to the world’s leading conservation congress meeting in the French city of Marseille both hopeful and wary. 

FRANKFURT: Rising eurozone inflation will provide the backdrop for the meeting of European Central Bank governors Thursday, with markets hoping for hints of when policymakers might start easing their massive pandemic-era stimulus. 

MARSEILLE: The pollution, emissions and clean-up costs of plastic produced in 2019 alone could be $3.7 trillion, according to a report released yesterday by wildlife charity WWF, warning of the environmental and economic burden of this “seemingly cheap” material. 

BAGHDAD: French energy giant TotalEnergies has signed a $27-billion contract to invest in oil, gas and solar energy production in Iraq, the country’s oil minister said yesterday. 

MUNICH: Germany’s revamped IAA auto show, one of the world’s largest, opens in Munich tomorrow for a celebration of all things car-related, but climate concerns and pandemic woes threaten to spoil the party. 

WASHINGTON: Spending less on food. Drawing down on retirement savings. Dropping out of the workforce altogether. Last year, the United States massively expanded unemployment aid as COVID-19 broke out. 

NEW YORK: US regulators fined Kraft Heinz $62 million over an alleged accounting scheme that inflated the food giant’s financial results due to bogus cost savings, authorities announced Friday. 

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka imposed price controls on key foods Friday as the government stepped up the use of emergency powers to counter shortages.