Sylvie Corbet
About Sylvie Corbet
Reporter with The Associated Press
The Paris summit on finance and climate ends. Action items to come
After all the talking, time for tangible solutions?
Climate activist Nakate turns up the heat on rich countries
Facing an audience packed with world leaders and finance officials in suits, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate silenced the room, then made everyone listen to some uncomfortable facts.
Europe's drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels crops
Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what was the Tille River in the village of Lux.
France urges greener habits with new car ads, plastic bans
For 2022, French consumers will be encouraged to adopt more environmentally friendly habits under a series of new regulations.
G-20 leaders endorse global corporate minimum tax
Leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday, October 30, 2021, endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations, a linchpin of new international tax rules aimed at blunting the edge of fiscal paradises amid skyrocketing profits of some multinational businesses.
