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The US’s critical minerals club threatens an equitable clean energy transition
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (822+ words) Nick Dearden is the director of Global Justice Now. The US push for nations to join a club that would coordinate the trade of critical minerals outside China signals a giant shift in Washington's vision for how to govern the…...
Argentina’s pioneering glacier law on the line as Milei bets on copper rush
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1245+ words) Argentine lawmakers are set to vote this week on government proposals to weaken a landmark law that bans mining on and around glaciers, days after President Javier Milei's libertarian administration signed a critical minerals supply deal with the US. Milei…...
China maximises battery recycling to shore up critical mineral supplies
1+ mon, 13+ hour ago (1118+ words) Even the busiest streets of Shanghai have become noticeably quieter as sales of electric vehicles (EVs) skyrocketed in China, with charging points mushrooming in residential compounds, car parks and service stations across the megacity." Many Chinese drivers have upgraded their…...
Africa records fastest-ever solar growth in 2025
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (847+ words) Installations of solar power in Africa jumped 54% in 2025, new data shows, marking the fastest annual growth on record, driven by governments and development agencies deploying utility-scale projects and households and businesses putting in rooftop and commercial systems." Utility-scale projects accounted…...
West Africa's first lithium mine awaits go-ahead as Ghana seeks better deal
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1003+ words) Lawmakers in Ghana are weighing up whether to greenlight one of Africa's largest lithium mines after civil society groups urged them to do more to ensure that the project benefits the country and supports green development. Ghana granted Australian miner…...
To break its coal habit, China should look to California’s progress on batteries
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (693+ words) Ye Huang is a senior researcher at Global Energy Monitor (GEM), where she tracks and analyses global renewable energy developments. Christine Shearer is project manager of GEM's Global Coal Plant Tracker (GCPT). As batteries redefine how power systems handle peak…...
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states and electro-states
2+ mon, 12+ hour ago (952+ words) Jennifer Morgan is a senior fellow with the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy and Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University and a former special climate envoy for the German government. The world is making progress: More than 90% of…...
IEA: Slow energy transition would cost millions of jobs
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (637+ words) A slower shift to clean energy could leave the world with 1.3 million fewer energy sector jobs by 2035 compared with a scenario in which governments fully implement their green policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has found. In its annual World…...
"Biofuels COP" stirs debate on how to clean up cars where EVs are tricky
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1018+ words) It has been dubbed the "Amazon COP, the "COP of Implementation and "the COP of Truth " but the UN climate summit in the Brazilian city of Bel'm may end up being remembered as the biofuels COP. COP30 president Brazil " a leading…...
Self-taught mechanics give second life to Jordan’s glut of spent EV batteries
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (1056+ words) Editing: Helen Popper and Chlo" Farand In the basement of a middle-class home in Jordan's capital, a homemade energy storage system connects 20 reconditioned Tesla car battery modules to rooftop solar panels, meeting nearly all of the family's electricity needs and…...