The United States is increasingly worried about China’s near-monopoly on the mining and processing of these strategic minerals.
‘Open Your Hearts’: The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Leaders and Media Won’t
The world’s most existential crisis has all but fallen off Washington’s agenda. But campaigners are finding success in more immediate targets.
The Struggle for What’s Essential
Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.
Herman Daly: An Economist for Eco-Social Activists
A new book explains how an economist, in challenging the orthodoxy, has helped activists change the world.
No Victory Day
Dealing with stalemates between Russia and Ukraine, environmentalists and climate change, and COVID and humanity.
India and Pakistan Are Baking, and Every Powerful Institution Is to Blame
Indians know they can’t rely on elites to save them from catastrophe. That’s exactly what could make a climate movement there so powerful.
What Remains of the U.S. Green New Deal?
Build Back Better is on the ropes. But other parts of a just transition are moving forward.
Can we Afford a Fair Global Climate Transition?
The cost of transformation is not cheap, but consider the alternatives.
China’s Evolving Energy Policies in Africa
China is both reducing and altering the nature of its investments in African energy projects.
The Impact of Green New Deals on Latin America
A new wave of extractivism from the Global South is the hidden side of the energy transitions in the North.