Africa has the minerals to power the green transition. Capturing more value means countries must pool market power and build shared capabilities.
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The amount of undeclared uranium from the DRC’s cobalt mines could – if processed – produce enough material for 600-1,500 nuclear weapons.
The minerals needed for clean energy are driving widespread forest loss across Africa, much of it far beyond the mine itself and largely preventable.
In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, thousands of young women and men burn electronic waste to extract minerals at a cost to their health. They need more protection.
Security measures alone are insufficient to resolve resource governance challenges in the DRC.
The rapid expansion of critical mineral extraction is trading away human and ecological well-being for technological breakthroughs. There are ways to fix this.
$120 oil didn’t start this EV transition. And cheaper oil won’t stop it.
Africa holds key green energy minerals but exports them raw. If the continent had its own Green Bank, it could finance local manufacturing and green industry.
There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.
Critical minerals are found in several forms in the ocean, from potato-size nodules to brine pools. They are also in some of the least understood parts of our planet.
Big batteries used in electric vehicles and grid storage have long relied on metals with tarnished supply chains. But this is changing.
The supply of critical minerals like lithium faces serious risks because of the failure of community approval.
New technologies could transform the way we mine – and recycle – critical minerals.
The competition for Africa’s critical minerals between China and the West presents an opportunity.
African nations need to negotiate contracts that ensure they hold on to the power their resources bring.
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is the world’s major supplier of cobalt, used in electric vehicle batteries, and is asserting its rights as an equal partner in the renewable energy transition.
A new, green theme is shaping relations between China and Africa: the global renewable energy race.
Some processes that support fusion energy fuel climate change and may harm the environment.
Uncontrolled pollution from hundreds of disused mines has contaminated the water and soil used by Soweto’s urban farmers.
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Lecturer in Sustainability and Fellow of Indo Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Università di Torino
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Research Scientist at the School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Royal Society Research Professor, Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
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Professor of Law and Justice and Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW
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Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Adjunct Professor and Director of the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights, Université de Genève
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Director - WH Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre - The Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Law, Indiana University
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