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Benchmark: battery demand for manganese set to increase 8-fold this decade

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Automotive companies are increasingly turning to manganese-intensive forms of battery chemistry due to lower cost structures and improved performance. Chinese cathode companies are also expanding production of LMFP cathodes where manganese’s properties can improve performance at a lower-cost.

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

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Quipping “We’re stuck”, Pershing forecast that world governments would instead have to adopt aggressive climate adaptation strategies. [ Unfortunately,” Repetto observes, “experience shows that in the United States, responses to disaster are mainly reactive, often characterized by inattention beforehand and over-response afterwards.”