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Ho Xiang Tian delivering a speech at a climate rally in Singapore in September 2023.

Carbon & Climate

Singapore can achieve net zero well before 2050, we should help our neighbours to decarbonise: Activist Ho Xiang Tian

The Sustainability Leadership A-List Youth winner tells Eco-Business about the Singapore he wants to see: a carbon-neutral decarbonisation pioneer that has stopped financing fossil fuels in Southeast Asia.
A fleet of electric cars in China

Transport

Battery recyclers eyeing policy support, plugging talent gap ahead of Asia market scale-up

Electric car makers need alternative sources for battery materials, as deep-sea mining talks stall. The attention is on recycling, but the regional industry outside China is nascent. Experts say political will is needed to get the drive on.
A dumbo octopus deep sea symbol

Water

Biodiversity risk casts doubt over future of deep-sea mining for investors

Analysts warn that investors are increasingly wary of the biodiversity risks of deep-sea mining, and so mining companies will find it ever harder to secure the billions needed to extract transition minerals from the ocean floor.
Tuna_Fishing_Deep_Sea_Mining

Water

‘Climate-altered’ Pacific could see conflict between tuna fishing and deep-sea mining

Climate change may push tuna into a potential hotspot of deep-sea mining interest in the eastern Pacific, new research finds.

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1 August 2023

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Water

Deep-sea mining not essential for the energy transition, say activists as extraction talks stall

27 July 2023

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Water

Deep-sea mining: a new gold rush or environmental disaster?

11 July 2023

A school of tuna

Water

Seafood industry calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining

24 February 2023

Deep_Sea_Mining_Whale_Noise

Water

Why deep-sea mining could be catastrophic for world's whales

9 January 2023

India vehicle smog

Policy & Finance

7 sustainability dates to look out for in 2023

8 December 2022

Governments, NGOs and companies called out for greenwashing in 2022

CSR

18 brands called out for greenwashing in 2022

9 November 2022

deep sea mining

Carbon & Climate

Narratives on deep-sea mining clash at COP27

31 August 2022

A shoal of Pacific sardines in the open ocean.

Water

The stalling of a treaty to protect the high seas exposes its flaws

1 August 2022

Deep_Sea_Jellyfish_Japan

Water

Scientists decry lack of transparency at deep-sea mining negotiations

12 July 2022

A stranded Cuvier's beaked whale.

Water

Noise pollution from deep-sea mining could wreck marine life, study warns

6 July 2022

Potato-sized polymetallic nodules

Water

Singapore affirms support for deep-sea mining

29 June 2022

The dumbo octopus

Water

Pacific nations form alliance to oppose deep-sea mining

29 April 2022

Nodules on the deep sea floor

Policy & Finance

Credit Suisse joins growing list of banks shunning deep-sea mining

12 April 2022

Oil Rig_Scotland

Energy

‘A huge mistake’: alarm bells ring as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

13 September 2021

Dumbo Octopod

Policy & Finance

Deep-sea mining receives a resounding rejection from conservation authorities

10 August 2021

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Transport

Drive toward electric vehicles should not rely on mining seabed, conservationists say

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