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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.
Carbon & Climate
What it means for global warming to exceed 1.5°C
A sobering new report from the United Nations Environment Programme warns that even if governments deliver on all their existing climate pledges, warming could reach 1.8°C later this century. That means humanity must pivot from simply containing global warming to finding ways to reverse it.
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.
Carbon & Climate
Who should build the low-carbon economy?
Since the first Industrial Revolution, goods and technologies have reached the farthest corners of the world, but the ability to design, build, market, and extract value from them has remained highly concentrated. Unless humanity can break this pattern, a sufficient response to climate change will remain out of reach.
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25 July 2025
Policy & Finance
The scramble for critical minerals
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Policy & Finance
Southeast Asia's frustration with the state of climate finance
8 January 2025
5 July 2023
Policy & Finance
Climate change talk is cheap without projects to finance
4 July 2023
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Policy & Finance
Globalisation is greener
3 August 2022
Food & Agriculture
We need a clearer roadmap to a resilient food system
28 June 2022
Carbon & Climate
Japan must step up climate ambition ahead of 2023 G7 leadership
6 June 2022
Policy & Finance
New financial conditions, same climate calculus
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Carbon & Climate
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