Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Last week in Mexico, the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis declared an“extraordinary environmental emergency” due to the high levels of PM 2.5, an atmospheric particulate matter, and ozone in Mexico City and surrounding states.  In Brazil, thousands of university professors and students protested nation wide against cuts on the federal budget affecting higher education in the country last week.  A group of gunmen attacked a coal mine operation and detonated a bomb last week in the Harnai District in northeastern Balochistan province of Pakistan, killing at least five people and injuring one.  About 15 Greenpeace activists conducted a demonstration in Sydney, Australia to demand that political parties take action against climate change and recognize the climate emergency.  The Portuguese parliament rejected a retroactive wage increase for the teachers’ union last week, worth 635 million euros, arguing that public finances cannot sustain the expenditure.  In the U.S., Weather reports informed that hea