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Policy & Finance
Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources
As climate change and great-power rivalry intensify, oceans are emerging as a geopolitical frontier – testing whether diplomacy can manage rising tensions over shipping routes, seabed minerals and fishing grounds.
Manufacturing
The critical minerals race is putting the planet at risk
Robust legal frameworks, backed by effective enforcement, can create the conditions for stable and rights-respecting mining. That means safeguarding Indigenous rights, protecting water resources and ensuring independent, participatory, and transparent impact assessments.
Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
Policy & Finance
Southeast Asian banks need to end loopholes allowing finance for industrial coal power
If they are serious about a sustainable future, they must close loopholes and extend coal policies across clients’ entire value chains, denying new financing to companies using coal unless they have credible, time-bound clean energy plans.
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6 October 2025
16 September 2025
Policy & Finance
Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot
25 July 2025
Policy & Finance
The scramble for critical minerals
3 July 2025
Manufacturing
The delicate art of natural resource diplomacy
20 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Green crime goes global
27 May 2025
13 May 2025
20 April 2025
29 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Trump’s Ukraine deal exposes a dirty truth about minerals
27 March 2025
26 March 2025
25 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Central banks must stem the nature crisis
Carbon & Climate
Sustainability in an unstable world
10 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Securing critical minerals a must for India’s clean energy ambitions
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