Chile’s Environment Minister Maisa Rojas, a leading climate scientist with a PhD from Oxford who made the leap into politics this year, is on a mission to strengthen the Andean country’s environmental rules and hold mining firms to account. Rojas, 49, is spearheading a new climate change law that binds Chile to carbon neutrality by 2050 and gives her ministry more power to set emission caps, including for the key mining sector in the world’s top copper producer. “In the case of mining, there are concrete commitments that will have to be put in place,” she told Reuters, citing initiatives that will be closely watched ... (full story)