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Carbon & Climate
Southeast Asia’s environmental defenders on the frontline
Environmental defenders across Southeast Asia face threats, violence and legal hurdles in their fight for justice. Five share their struggles.
Policy & Finance
Q&A: What could a US-China trade war mean for the energy transition?
Ahead of Donald Trump’s second term as US president, a rerun of his first trade war with China is firmly on the cards – and minerals key to the energy transition may end up in the crossfire.
Global Witness warns that mining for green energy is fuelling conflict and human rights abuses in Asia and elsewhere, urging tougher standards and protections.
Environmental activists say they see no letup in fossil fuel burning and environmental degradation under Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo Subianto.
Policy & Finance
Indigenous rights under pressure as Philippine minerals boom
Carbon & Climate
Bumpy road ahead as battery fears hit global EV rollout
Policy & Finance
Q&A: What the Draghi report says about EU climate action and energy
#rare earths Opinion
Policy & Finance
‘No-Go’ mining zones can protect nature as renewable energy surges
Prohibiting mining in key areas can safeguard biodiversity and Indigenous rights in the energy transition.
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
Manufacturing
Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment
#rare earths Videos
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
