Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. Despite countless pledges and
summits, we remain on course for a catastrophic 3 degrees Celsius of warming. In a world of …

Reliance on established macroeconomic thinking is not of much use in trying to understand
what to do in response to the constellation of forces driving up inflation and slowing down …

Achieving a 1.5° C global temperature limit by 2050 has heightened the need for lithium
extraction for energy storage. This is touted by governments and industry as essential to a …

Wyoming is the epicentre of the coal transition in the United States. The coal industry is
critical to the state's economy, both in terms of jobs and a state revenue model dependent on …

While vital for the development of 'clean'energy technologies, the extraction and processing
of critical minerals and rare earth elements entail a range of overlapping social and …

In recent years, attention within the sustainability transitions literature has focused on the
politics of deliberately accelerating sustainability transitions. One core strand of this research …

The increasing demand for transition minerals, such as lithium, to decarbonize energy and
transportation systems has led to the emergence of new mining projects within the Global …

The global transition towards sustainable energy sources necessitates a delicate balance
between incentivizing domestic mineral inputs and ensuring affordable energy transition …

Supposed green technological fixes to the climate crisis necessitate the mining of raw
materials such as lithium en masse, spurring the proliferation of mining globally and the …

Debates on technologies for harnessing renewable energies tend to generate a polarized
arena in which critical voices are automatically denounced as defenders of fossil energy …