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Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

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The two companies have partnered before, with the Weda Bay Nickel project in Indonesia. It is a key milestone in the deployment of our strategic roadmap which aims at positioning Eramet as a reference player in metals for the energy transition. Fresh water is then used to release the stored lithium.

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CSIRO Reports Highest-ever Winter Water Temperatures Recorded Off Tasmanias East Coast

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Tasmania’s east coast is recording its highest-ever winter water temperatures of more than 13 ºC (55 °F)—up to 1.5 Partly formed from the system of currents draining the Pacific Ocean into the Indian Ocean through Indonesia, its characteristics are detectable throughout the course of its long winter journey.

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Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

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Highlights relevant international and national processes with links to publicly available data sources in an extensive reference section. In the meantime, the Partnership is proceeding with piloting projects in Indonesia, Colombia and Ghana. Water use and efficiency. Water quality. Biological diversity in the landscape.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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This would increase the annual carbon emission to somewhere between 380 and 920 Mt CO 2 e by 2020 depending on water management practices and the extent of plantations. Mha, nearly half the total peatland in the area, is formally allocated to conversion to industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia. —Miettinen et al.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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billion) were all in the top 10 of investing countries while more than $1 billion was invested in Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Kenya and Turkey. billion, the largest single renewable energy asset finance deal ever, outside large hydro—that of the 600MW Gemini project in Dutch waters. Additional to China, Brazil ($7.6

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IRENA: diversifying critical material supply chains minimizes geopolitical risks

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Australia (lithium), China (graphite, rare earths), Chile (copper and lithium), the Democratic Republic of Congo (cobalt), Indonesia (nickel) and South Africa (platinum, iridium) are the dominant players. Today, the mining of critical materials is highly concentrated in specific geographical locations.

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