Also just out - on raw materials (MF = material footprint): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There's no utopia hiding in the cruelty. No transformative change in the preening belligerence. There's nothing in the centre to find except for exterminatory desire to be the only person in the room, country, world who gets to decide what's important. He's like the apotheosis of bad self help

At least she's come up with a great position for all those who identify as both racists and pedants

The Greenpeace report refers to "European energy investments". France has already signed deals with Rabat to develop energy projects in Western Sahara. Western governments are successively capitulating on this issue, I say watch this space re Xlinks www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

I don't see it mentioned in the article, but a large proportion of Morocco's renewable energy projects are in Western Sahara, a territory under occupation since the 1970s, from which much of the indigenous population has been exiled. I'm all pro renewables, but that seems ground for concern to me.

In 2022, Global Witness reported on how the ITSCI scheme appeared to be used to launder conflict minerals from eastern DRC through Rwanda www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Battle continues... www.prensalibre.com/guatemala/co...

You can listen to the full series on Spotify (in Spanish) at shorturl.at/Da9fg and watch the accompanying video clips (with English subtitles) on YouTube at www.youtube.com/@HablaPacha

The series tells how their centuries-long struggle for land rights must now confront the new threat of multinational lithium miners laying claim to the "white gold" beneath their feet. Their story of resistance is framed against the music, art and legends of the ancestral culture they fear to lose.