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Ahead of presidential elections in Indonesia, environmentalists say the candidates have failed to outline clear green policies.
Carbon & Climate
Elections, heat and youth power: Climate tipping points for 2024?
We asked experts what they think might spur effective climate action in 2024. Here are their ideas.
Whoever is elected in February must involve more of society in consultations on BRI projects to mitigate environmental risks, Indonesian analysts write.
Battery recycling needs standardising, say experts, who also call for loopholes to be closed and awareness raised among EV owners.
Carbon & Climate
As China’s carbon market turns two, how has it performed?
Policy & Finance
Why China and India disagree on green mineral supply chains
#rare earths Opinion
If unchecked, deep sea mining could impact fish stocks and Pacific Island communities along with it.
Policy & Finance
Treaty to protect high seas too late to stop mining
Deep sea mining is about to get the green light and companies itching to exploit it have a head start on authorities.
Policy & Finance
Globalisation is greener
The materials, innovation, and capital needed to reach net-zero emissions are not equally distributed and, as a result, must be shared around the world.
Manufacturing
The next global resource crisis
Western governments want to advance the clean energy transition without being overly dependent on China for critical minerals. But their plans fail to acknowledge a potential obstacle: the fraught local politics of opening up new mines.
Manufacturing
Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment
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Green Buildings
Thai homes score world’s first in storing sunshine
A Thai firm has built the country's first homes that runs on solar power for 24 hours a day, using a hybrid of solar PV panels and fuel cells.
Japanese firms venture into solar energy storage using discarded electric vehicle batteries, complementing the country's move to continue building more solar power plants.
#rare earths Podcasts
Pro-miners argue that deep-sea mining is essential to enable the energy transition. On the Eco-Business podcast, Sian Owen of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition argues why nature's last frontier should be protected, not exploited.
#rare earths Press Releases
NEU Battery Materials
NEU Battery Materials concludes oversubscribed US$3.7M seed funding round
