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David Fickling

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An EV trade war with China would be an own goal for carmakers

A nasty thing about waging war is that your enemies have a habit of fighting back. That is a lesson German Chancellor Olaf Scholz would do well to...

15.04.2024 20

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India’s most innovative cities are running out of water

At the time Egypt’s pyramids were being constructed, one of the cradles of global civilization grew up in the Indus Valley around the borders of...

02.04.2024 20

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China's Shein and Temu are driving oil, not Toyota and GM

Hearing overseas oil executives talk, you would think that Chinese drivers and air passengers were coming to the rescue of an oil market looking for...

01.04.2024 30

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Plastic bag bans have failed in every way except one

Remember a few years ago, when lots of places decided to ban plastic bags? Remember how we all stopped using them? Yeah, me neither. Far from reducing...

31.01.2024 20

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Lithium’s promised land looks more like the old country

Once upon a time, the world didn’t care much about lithium. A decade after Sony developed lithium-ion batteries in 1991, the rise of smartphones and...

09.01.2024 20

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Democracy and climate politics are set to collide next year

As the dust settles on the COP28 climate summit that recently concluded in Dubai, a sobering reality is looming. After the legalistic niceties of...

20.12.2023 10

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COP28 like a trade show? That’s not a bad thing.

There is a common lament echoing through the halls of Expo City Dubai, the 400-hectare conference venue where the COP28 climate conference is being...

11.12.2023 20

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How China’s downturn could save the world

The story of emissions over the past two decades has been written in Chinese. Since it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 and became the...

10.11.2023 20

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How Japan became the land the energy transition forgot

After a tsunami triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011, the world’s third- and fourth-largest exporters decided on...

07.11.2023 20

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We’re not even close to running out of green minerals

For those betting against the world’s ability to kick its carbon addiction, the commodities boom of the past few years has provided fresh...

06.10.2023 100

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Australia hoped to dodge wildfires. El Nino has other plans.

The declaration of El Nino conditions in the middle of a spring heatwave is the sort of news that can cause dread in Australia. The climate cycle...

27.09.2023 60

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