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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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Scrap steel was banned from sale to such furnaces in early 2017, becoming available for use in EAFs. Roskill forecasts that global sales of EVs and hybrid vehicles will increase rapidly in the coming years and could account for 69% of all motor vehicle sales by 2027. Batteries underpin growth in natural graphite.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. 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, Erin A.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Burundi, Central African Republic, Madagascar, the Bahamas, and Latvia slipped significantly in environmental performance, largely due to sub-par performance on climate change. EPI and Global Sustainability Data. All trend analyses are based on backcasting this year’s EPI methods on historical data. 2018 EPI Trends. 2018 EPI Trends.

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