The world’s automakers are just starting to bet on an electric car future — and already, one of the most powerful people in the industry says that future belongs to China.

A law banning slave-made goods from entering the United States has failed, lawmakers and advocates said, as they push border authorities to step up inspections of suspicious shipments.

Governments of the two largest cocoa-producing countries — Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana — pledged themselves to “Frameworks for Action” with leading chocolate and cocoa companies at COP23 this month to end deforestation and restore forest areas in the cocoa supply chain.

The city of Ternate in eastern Indonesia seems forgotten by time.