To address climate change, countries must decarbonize and shift to renewable energy. Renewables like solar and wind are mineral intensive, meaning the world must rapidly scale …
W Liu, X Li, C Liu, M Wang, L Liu - Resources Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Cobalt, one of the essential new energy materials, is widely applied in many crucial industries. In recent years, the rapid development of electric vehicles (EVs) has led to …
AL Gulley - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
From 2000 through 2020, demand for cobalt to manufacture batteries grew 26-fold. Eighty- two percent of this growth occurred in China and China's cobalt refinery production …
Examples include how global market structures and systems contribute to the concentration of wealth in an increasingly small number of hands, the maldistribution of public goods, the …
T Laing, AN Pinto - Environmental Science & Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The transition to a low-carbon economy will require an unprecedented change to the energy system. The renewable and energy storage technologies that need to be built are …
Despite women and gender issues being at the forefront of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) research, a narrative review showcasing the current state of the burgeoning literature …
About nine million Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) workers in Africa and people living near ASGM activities are highly exposed to geogenic and anthropogenic …
Many recent studies have examined the impact of predicted changes in temperature and precipitation patterns on infectious diseases under different greenhouse gas emissions …
Purpose The paper aims to investigate key aspects of climate change adaptation strategies of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) across two different climate-vulnerable country …