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Policy & Finance

How to improve global mineral governance

The race to secure critical minerals has intensified at the same time as the international community has recognised the need for more sustainable and responsible mining practices. Translating the resulting frameworks and guidelines into concrete action will require consolidating Global South policy and advocacy networks.
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Cities

Delhi’s EV policy changes the engine, not the system

Electric vehicles can reduce pollution and emissions. But underlying issues of preserving car dependence, displacing environmental harm and workers bearing the costs of a clean future need to be addressed.
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Energy

China’s clean technology dominance reshapes global net zero transition

Partnerships with China, not protectionism, will determine affordable, interoperable and equitable global decarbonisation and energy security.
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Policy & Finance

Development economics for an age of upheaval

As the boundaries that once separated sectors become blurred, prosperity increasingly depends on how economies build the ecosystems that sustain technological progress and nurture new productive capacity.

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Energy

The energy crisis is reshaping Asia’s energy transition pathway

6 April 2026

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Energy

The energy transition has its own Strait of Hormuz

15 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

How to measure climate progress

29 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

What a China-EU climate deal could do for the world

16 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Can Europe and China forge a climate connection?

10 September 2025

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Energy

Rethinking India’s solar strategy: Why solar thermal deserves a second look

31 August 2025

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Energy

India's climate finance gap is smaller than it seems

25 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

The scramble for critical minerals

27 May 2025

Copper, nickel and silicon are the most critical to India’s mineral security due to exponentially rising demand trends and significant supply chain vulnerabilities

Cities

How India is reducing dependence on China for rare earth minerals

9 May 2025

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Energy

Solar puts us in fast lane to 100 per cent renewables

7 March 2025

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Energy

Impact of Trump 2.0 on Southeast Asia's energy politics

8 January 2025

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Transport

Making an electric car battery, minus China

12 December 2024

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Policy & Finance

‘No-Go’ mining zones can protect nature as renewable energy surges

28 March 2024

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Energy

China doubles down on green tech, energy transition

2 January 2024

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Policy & Finance

How the EU can secure a sustainable supply of critical minerals

2 November 2023

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Transport

How is Southeast Asia’s charge to EVs going?

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