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#nickel 新闻
Customers want low carbon nickel but refuse to pay more, says Nickel Industries’ Muchtazar, as experts look to carbon credits and new incentives to make Indonesia’s smelters go green.
As geopolitical tensions and supply chain disruptions continue to reshape global energy markets, countries are increasingly grappling with ensuring energy security and affordability while transitioning away from fossil fuels.
Global efforts to regulate deep-sea mining face delays – as unresolved rules and unilateral moves heighten uncertainty over the industry’s future.
Activists warn a new US-Indonesia trade deal could accelerate mining, deforestation and fossil fuel use, with weak, nonbinding environmental safeguards.
#nickel 观点
Green policy targets environmental outcomes, while industry and trade focus on jobs and growth. When misaligned, green efforts stall and competitiveness weakens.
A system built on renewables introduces new risks, as critical bottlenecks shift to refining, processing, and mineral-supply chains.
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.
A balanced approach that includes both solar photovoltaic and solar thermal, backed by strong policy support, local manufacturing and circularity infrastructure, is essential to ensure India’s energy security.
#nickel 播客
Critical minerals will be central to this year’s Asean meetings, said environment assistant secretary Noralene Uy, as the Philippines ushers the region towards domestic processing as summit chair.
#nickel 新闻发布稿
World Trade Organization (WTO)
New database on critical minerals trade launched to support clean energy transition
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