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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

Neil Adger and Jon Barnett lay out four “reasons for concern about adaptation” to climate change, to counter “what we perceive to be a widespread belief that adaptation will be smooth, cheap, and easy to implement.”. Required rates of decarbonization with the potential to. Adaptive capacities may be undermined by unsustainable actions.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

Cars That Think

The supply of metals like cobalt, copper, lithium, and nickel needed for batteries is already shaky , and soaring demand for the hundreds of millions of batteries in the coming decades is likely to trigger shortage and high prices. China processes about 80 percent of battery raw materials, creating a chokehold on global supplies.

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