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A system built on renewables introduces new risks, as critical bottlenecks shift to refining, processing, and mineral-supply chains.
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.
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The scramble for critical minerals
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Manufacturing
The delicate art of natural resource diplomacy
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Green crime goes global
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Policy & Finance
Trump’s Ukraine deal exposes a dirty truth about minerals
27 March 2025
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Policy & Finance
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Sustainability in an unstable world
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Policy & Finance
Securing critical minerals a must for India’s clean energy ambitions
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