Our new explainer includes key questions about the green energy transition, like what are critical minerals and can they be mined without exacerbating social and environmental harms? buff.ly/3vY7sF6

Comment: Extracting metals and minerals poses risks to people, climate, biodiversity, and water. Our declaration urges governments to ban mining expansion in sacred and essential 'no-go' zones.
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Comment: Commercial banks are financing a huge amount of #fossilfuel and industrial agriculture activities in the Global South – they must turn off the tap, writes
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The offshore wind industry faces unique headwinds which threaten to push its growth journey off course and into choppy waters.
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The state of Gujarat is at the heart of India’s solar manufacturing boom. Reporter monika_mondal travelled to the city of Mundra, where Adani is planning to make solar panels from scratch.
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Comment: As the #plastics industry works to expand, the perspectives of frontline leaders are essential to arrive at a global plastics treaty that supports a stable #climate , a livable planet and a just future, writes Heather McTeer Toney #Beyondpetrochemicals♻️ Beyond Petrochemicals #INC4 buff.ly/3UG0kXg

In Mbour, the shore is disappearing, posing a crisis for its 11,000 fishers. Meanwhile, in neighboring Saly, the World Bank invested $74 million in beach protection to reclaim 8-9 kilometres of hotel-lined beachfront, popular with tourists. buff.ly/3UlQGsR

Climate and energy ministers from G7 Italy nations agreed a coal exit deadline — with a caveat, but made little progress on other fossil fuels and finance climatechangenews.com/2024/04/30/g7-…

Comment: Indigenous peoples conserve some of the world’s most biodiverse regions. Negotiators at global climate events do cite our outsize conservation role, but treaty language allows our governments to decide when and whether to recognize our rights.
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What are critical minerals and what do they have to do with clean energy? buff.ly/3vY7sF6

As the new UN #LossandDamage Fund board kicks off its first meeting, we ask whether the link between #climatechange and a particular disaster should have to be proven before the fund dishes out money to affected communities buff.ly/3UEvgY1

Zimbabwe boasts Africa’s largest lithium reserves. China, the country’s largest foreign investor, is leading a rush to mine and process the country’s resources. Andrew Mambondiyani reports buff.ly/3SckLIO

A mining project worth $130 million displaced dozens of households in Mukwasi village, Zimbabwe, with the promise of economic development — but what’s really happening there? buff.ly/3SckLIO

What happened at the #SpringMeetings ? Changes are afoot at the IMF and World Bank – but debt-squeezed developing nations need far faster access to more finance for climate action, writes Rachel Kyte buff.ly/4aSuQTr

As the US seeks to break its dependence on China for clean energy technologies, its imports of India-made solar panels have soared. But can India really compete with China’s dominance? buff.ly/4bhLk89

“Climate finance must be used to help those most vulnerable – not to help the world’s wealthiest add a climate hashtag to their Instagram posts by the pool” Teresa Anderson
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There is widespread scientific consensus that renewable energy and other clean sources, such as nuclear power, can and must dominate energy systems in the future to meet global climate goals. But there are different ways to get there.
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At the recent #SpringMeetings , France, Kenya, and Barbados launched a task force to bridge the climate finance gap for developing countries. Proposed measures include taxes on the wealthy, plane tickets, shipping fuel, and fossil fuel production.
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In laying out his vision for #COP29 , its incoming president, Mukhtar Babayev, acknowledged in Berlin that finance is “one of the most challenging topics of climate diplomacy”, adding that there are “strong and well-founded views on all sides”.
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MIGA, the little-known insurance arm of the World Bank Group, has counted its backing for the hotels as part of its climate efforts for the past three years, according to annual sustainability reports.
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