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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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Researchers Finds Lake Tanganyika Has Experienced Unprecedented Warming Over Last Century

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Our data show a consistent relationship between lake surface temperature and productivity [such as fish stocks]. As the lake gets warmer, we expect productivity to decline, and we expect that it will affect the [fishing] industry. —Jessica Tierney, lead author. —Andrew Cohen.

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