The world’s first futures market for water launched in California in December. Two commodities experts explain how it works, what the potential problems are and why there’s no reason to freak out.
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Australia needs to move beyond mining graphite and invest in processes that convert it into synthetic diamonds and use it to create carbon fibres.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Chair professor - Circular Economy, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Kyoto University
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University