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The Times reports “global demand for coal will hit a record high this year but then decline next year, driven by China, the IEA has forecast”.

Future negotiations should focus more on reshaping incentives for oil and gas producing countries, and less on fulminating at their villainy.

The electric vehicle industry has created a new rush to stake a claim on lithium. But environmental groups say there are risks.

LONDON  —  The West’s dependence on China for so-called critical minerals once worried only a handful of experts and policy wonks. Now, the anxiety has gone mainstream, capturing headlines and becoming the subject of a BBC documentary series. But we have yet to answer adequately the most important question: What should we do about it?

LONDON  —  The West’s dependence on China for so-called critical minerals once worried only a handful of experts and policy wonks. Now, the anxiety has gone mainstream, capturing headlines and becoming the subject of a BBC documentary series. But we have yet to answer adequately the most important question: What should we do about it?

Daniel Litvin asks how the West can avoid dependence on China for the minerals on which the clean-energy transition depends.

Imposing a one-off tax on energy companies’ extraordinary profits might seem like a no-brainer at a time of soaring inflation, but the idea has more than a few detractors. As policymakers in a growing number of economies move ahead, we asked PS commentators whether they are right to do so.

Resource nationalism, once an anti-mining rallying cry across the continent, has now given way to a kinder, more accommodative approach by governments from Zambia to Ghana.

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