Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Underpinned by the huge demand for cobalt feedstocks from the battery sector versus relatively tight supply, the cobalt metal price climbed from below US$15/lb in 2016 to a ten-year high of US$43/lb in Q2 2018. Consequently, prices started to retreat from mid-2018 and fell to a three-year low of $13/lb in July 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) finds that air quality is the leading environmental threat to public health. The United States places 27 th in the 2018 EPI, with strong scores on some issues, such as sanitation and air quality, but weak performance on others, including deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. Shedd (2018) “China’s domestic and foreign influence in the global cobalt supply chain,” Resources Policy, Volume 62, Pages 317-323 doi: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.03.015.

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