Mexico's new president ran on climate goals. Will she follow through?

Claudia Sheinbaum, a former climate scientist and Mexico City mayor, has often led with politics over the environmentThe month before Mexico's 2 June presidential vote the country was bedeviled by water cuts and blackouts as a record heatwave took the country beyond red and into an ominous purple on the weather map.As dehydrated monkeys dropped dead from trees, the landslide victory of Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist, might look like salvation. But her record paints a more complicated picture - one where climate convictions have often, and may still, come second to political pragmatism. Continue reading...