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How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy

GreenBiz

Several countries in Asia, including China, the world’s largest chemical producer, have developed national chemical regulatory programs strongly influenced by the EU’s design. Policy & Politics. The EU chemical regulation footprint is also strong in the rest of the world. Chemicals & Toxics. Circular Economy. European Union.

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Ed’s note: Energy poverty in our own backyard

Smart Energy International

Today, it is focused on Latin America, tomorrow on Europe (my own backyard), Thursday on Asia and Friday on Africa. We need strong political commitment. We now have a thorough understanding of the situations, and we know which combination of social, political, financial, and technical measures have proven effective.

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How Bad Relations With China Could Mess With the Energy Transition

GreenTechMedia

“The narrative had been ‘China will join the international system, then it will liberalize and it will be fine,’” said Hugo Brennan, principal Asia analyst at Verisk Maplecroft. “If they decide for political reasons that they won't deliver solar to Europe anymore, what do we do then?”

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COP27: UK, US, and EU lead $20bn deal to help wean Indonesia off coal power

Business Green

Once a definitive agreement is reached over the coal plant's retirement, it is anticipated the ADB would provide senior debt in return for shortening the current power purchase agreement between CEP and Indonesia's state-owned electricity company PLN for the coal plant.

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MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation

Charged

These elements (which are not particularly rare, but seemed so to the scientists who named them back in the 18th century) are critical components of motors, and like the strategic materials used in batteries, they tend to come from faraway countries with problematic environmental and/or political profiles.

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How green hydrogen could completely reshape the global energy map

Business Green

And given the potential of hydrogen produced from renewable energy - known as green hydrogen - to follow a similarly swift cost-reduction trajectory to that of wind and solar in the coming years, its economic and political impacts could be monumental. But hydrogen is not a new oil.

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How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy

AGreenLiving

Several countries in Asia, including China, the world’s largest chemical producer, have developed national chemical regulatory programs strongly influenced by the EU’s design. The EU chemical regulation footprint is also strong in the rest of the world. will look closely at the potential for adopting elements of the new EU programs.

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