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AUGUST 7, 2014

Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from Solaris, a new hybrid tobacco plant optimized for seed production for energy applications. In coming years, Boeing expects emerging technologies to increase South Africas aviation biofuel production from the rest of the plant.

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Within the first quarter of this 12 months, China surpassed Japan and Germany to transform the sector’s biggest car exporter for the primary year, exporting a complete of one.069 Tesla China, SAIC, Chery, Geely, Stunning Wall Motors, Changan, and BYD are a number of the largest participants to Chinese language car exports.

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Boeing and South African Airways (SAA) will work together to develop and to implement a sustainable aviation biofuel supply chain in Southern Africa, a first for the continent. The aerospace company’s plan to work with SAA is the first such project in Africa.

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JUNE 1, 2023

The metals that are highly sought after—such as dysprosium, neodymium, manganese and niobium—are of great economic importance to the EU, while their supply is limited and it takes time to scale up raw material production. The increasing dependence on them is thus problematic for several reasons. Ljunggren, M., Huisman, J.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

The vehicles will also be produced at other Daimler and Nissan plants in Europe and China. It will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers in Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. The new pickup will share some of its architecture with the all-new Nissan NP300.

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JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. The possible impact of using off-gases from this sector is considerable.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

New investor Mingxin China Growth Fund joined previous backers including DAG Ventures in the oversubscribed round. The new funding round will support Oorja’s continued success supplying the OorjaPac to the material handling business. Earlier post.) million in 2011 to $1.3 The investment round follows a $4.2-million

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MARCH 8, 2021

are launching a new rare earth production initiative spanning European and North American critical material supply chains. Energy Fuels will produce its RE Carbonate from natural monazite sands supplied by US-based Chemours Company under a sales agreement between Energy Fuels and Chemours that was announced on 14 December 2020.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Boeing and South African Airways (SAA) announced that South African farmers will soon harvest their first crop of energy-rich tobacco plants, an important step towards using the plants to make sustainable aviation biofuel. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Efforts to decarbonize steel production are central to the net-zero aspirations of China, Japan, Korea and the European Union. South Africa and India have good iron ore reserves and the potential to produce a large amount of low-cost clean power. China will continue to play a pivotal role. BAU is business-as-usual.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

These efforts could also supply biofuel to ground and marine vehicles, saving about 1 million tons of CO 2 emissions per year on a life cycle basis across the transportation sector, the study found. The consortium is led by UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors, Ltd., of Vancouver.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

Russia ranks second in the extraction of both crude oil (behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (behind the United States and ahead of Iran), and it is the sixth-largest producer of coal (behind Australia and ahead of South Africa). share in 2020, by contrast, was about 9 percent.

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In fact, China accounted for half of the worldwide growth of EV sales in 2021, and IEA writes that more EVs were purchased there in 2021 than in the entire rest of the world throughout 2020. Supply chain issues and delivery delays also disrupt EV sales in some regions, making it harder for consumers to take receive their new EVs.

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JULY 20, 2010

As of 20 July, participating governments include China, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Other initial partners include the International Energy Agency. Conducting analyses of the demonstrations, including cost-effectiveness assessments.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Both SBI and Mascoma say they have made significant progress towards commercialization and collectively have development partners in the US, Canada, China, Brazil and South Africa, all of which will benefit from the combination.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

At the same time we want to permanently and sustainably strengthen our competitiveness with a high-performance organization ,” said Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain Management, during a media event at the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant. —Markus Schäfer.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

The Outlook for Energy provides ExxonMobil’s long-term view of global energy demand and supply. The outlook is developed by examining energy supply and demand trends in 100 countries, 15 demand sectors covering all manner of personal and business needs and 20 different energy types. Outlook for Energy.

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MAY 13, 2011

Synergies with the acetyl business include shared customers, raw materials and the supply chain. In January, Celanese signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Wison (China) Holding Co., a Chinese synthesis gas supplier, for the production of certain feedstocks used in the TCX process. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Recycling provided the only source of domestic supply for antimony, bismuth, chromium, germanium, tin, tungsten, and vanadium. China was the leading producing nation for 30 of the 50 critical minerals (including 14 lanthanides).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February also saw the publication of a Los Angeles Times interview with US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ( earlier post ), in which he voiced concern that the effects of climate change could decimate California’s agriculture as well as its urban water supplies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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The initiative, which funds 10 global sustainability research projects in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Russia and the United States. China is experiencing a great deal of change and growth, with a desire for better sustainability. —Susan Zelinski. —Susan Zielinski. —Susan Zielinski. Zielinski, S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The risk to business is that it faces more unpredictable and extreme weather, and disruptions to market and supply chains. Sectors dependent on food, water, energy or ecosystem services need to scrutinise the resilience and viability of their supply chains. Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina).

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JULY 13, 2023

The energy transition requires a massive increase in the supply of critical materials, yet supply chains remain vulnerable to a range of geopolitical risks. Supply disruptions could impact the speed of the energy transition in the short to medium term, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) warns.

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APRIL 21, 2020

At this time, the loss of supply from these closures amounted to more than 1% of the total mine supply in 2019. Roskill expects the cobalt market to face more severe supply disruption should the prevention and control measures be further extended on a global scale. —Gulley et al.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Collectively, the investments in energy RD&D by governments and state-owned enterprises in the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, China, and South Africa (the BRIMCS countries) are now as large or larger than those of the developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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AUGUST 7, 2021

China Molybdenum (CMOC) , a leading cobalt and copper producer, recently started trial production from its 10k expansion project at the Tenke Fungurume Mine (TFM) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). TFM mainly produces copper cathode and cobalt hydroxide. In 2020, TFM produced 182,597 tonnes of copper and 15,436 tonnes of cobalt.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An executive from Ford said recently that automakers might feel compelled to invest directly in cobalt production over fears of securing adequate supply. “I In turn, this shift may lead to soaring demand for nickel, creating another supply squeeze as mine expansion plans are limited,” BofAML analysts wrote in their report.

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JULY 28, 2018

President Trump’s trade war with China, which is still in its early stages, has already battered the yuan. Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa have seen significant depreciations in their currencies this year. has complained to China for years, demanding less intervention to artificially suppress the value of the yuan.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Allan Ray Restauro, metals and mining analyst at BNEF and lead author.

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AUGUST 20, 2022

70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. China, using largely coal-based electricity, had 6 million EVs in 2021, constituting the largest total stock of EVs in the world. But coal use varies, even within China.

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