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DECEMBER 22, 2021

An advanced trial of the prototype truck is being run at Anglo-American’s Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine in South Africa. Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight company, with the decarbonization of its supply chains at the center of its target to reach net-zero operational emissions by 2050.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

SDCmaterials, a developer of advanced catalyst products based on a novel materials fabrication and integration platform, announced a partnership and formalized a supply agreement with Car Sound, a leading manufacturer of catalysts and catalytic converters for the automotive aftermarket. Further advancements in automotive fuel economy.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Recycling provided the only source of domestic supply for antimony, bismuth, chromium, germanium, tin, tungsten, and vanadium. The other leading producers of critical minerals were Australia and South Africa with three critical minerals each and Congo (Kinshasa) with two critical minerals.

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JULY 28, 2018

Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa have seen significant depreciations in their currencies this year. Because China is a voracious consumer of commodities, including crude oil, the compounding effect of a slowdown in the Chinese economy and a weaker yuan creates new headwinds for the oil market.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

The next ten years could see a massive expansion of steel capacity to meet demand in growing economies, such as India. South Africa and India have good iron ore reserves and the potential to produce a large amount of low-cost clean power. The steel industry cannot afford to wait for the 2040s to start its transition.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Similarly, having a distribution line (often illegally rigged) running to a dwelling tells us nothing about the usage of power or the reliability of its supply. Even South Africa, by far the best-supplied country south of the Sahara, suffers from frequent blackouts.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

Significant growth in the global middle class, expansion of emerging economies and an additional 2 billion people in the world will contribute to a 35% increase in energy demand by 2040, according to ExxonMobil’s latest Outlook for Energy report. The Outlook for Energy provides ExxonMobil’s long-term view of global energy demand and supply.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The low annual rate of global reduction of carbon emissions per unit of GDP needed to limit global warming to 2 °C—based on the probability assessments of the UN IPCC—is insufficient to achieve that goal, according to the latest Low Carbon Economy Index published by business consultancy PwC. —PwC.

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Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy 261

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AUGUST 4, 2014

South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. 2012.08.066.

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MARCH 18, 2013

The next generation of urban transportation is about connecting transportation modes, services, and technologies, bringing diverse innovations together in ways that favor accessibility (meeting needs) over mobility (moving for the sake of moving), and that work significantly better for people, economies, and the planet. Zielinski, S.

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AUGUST 20, 2022

We then used results from a model of the global economy to allocate a portion of this global budget specifically to the U.S. Even if that were possible, there would also have to be an enormous increase in charging infrastructure and in material supply chains. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles West Virginia Electrical 97

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Our economic modeling suggests that an investment of a few extra billion per year today could develop technologies that could save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050 in scenarios where there are stringent policies limiting how much carbon can be emitted. billion, a 92% increase over the FY 2009 appropriations.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ). Given that China’s economy is still growing, such a strategy is unlikely to result in year-to-year emissions reductions for several decades. Earlier post.).

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