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Manufacturing

Can the fashion industry adapt to a warming world?

COP30 agreed to triple adaptation finance, but the fashion industry needs adaptation measures now.
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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.
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Corporate Responsibility

Can ethical supply chains survive the tariff storm?

The fashion industry business will not come from diplomacy or presidential handshakes, but from trust-based relationships built on fair purchasing practices, sustainability concerns, and other ethical commitments.
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Manufacturing

Getting to greener steel

Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.

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16 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Can Europe and China forge a climate connection?

31 August 2025

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Energy

India's climate finance gap is smaller than it seems

8 August 2025

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Waste

Stop letting a small minority derail the plastics treaty: WWF

3 July 2025

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Manufacturing

The delicate art of natural resource diplomacy

20 June 2025

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Waste

From scrap to strategy: Building a circular economy for India’s electronics boom

7 May 2025

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Cities

Developing countries can lead in medical innovation

20 April 2025

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Manufacturing

Southeast Asia's potential role in rare earth elements diversification

26 March 2025

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Policy & Finance

A critical year for finance could shape fairer, more sustainable mining

10 March 2025

Copper, nickel and silicon are the most critical to India’s mineral security due to exponentially rising demand trends and significant supply chain vulnerabilities

Policy & Finance

Securing critical minerals a must for India’s clean energy ambitions

6 March 2025

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Transport

Will Proton's electric vehicle spur new local supply chains – and displace the old?

10 February 2025

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Manufacturing

Fast fashion has a serious coal problem

29 January 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Climate displacement is also a health crisis

8 January 2025

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Transport

Making an electric car battery, minus China

13 December 2024

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Policy & Finance

Companies are not ditching net zero – they are refining goals

12 December 2024

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Policy & Finance

‘No-Go’ mining zones can protect nature as renewable energy surges

10 December 2024

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Waste

From paradise to plastics pollution: Bali’s battle for marine plastics debris

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