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La Serbie pourrait exploiter son important gisement de lithium dès 2028, a dit son président dans une interview au Financial Times dimanche, ce qui pourrait selon lui être "une véritable révolution" pour le pays et la région."Si nous tenons toutes nos promesses, la mine pourrait ouvrir en 2028", a dit Aleksandar Vucic, ajoutant que le gisement de Jadar, exploité par Rio Tinto, pourrait produire jusqu'à 58.000 tonnes de lithium par an, "assez pour 17 % de la production de véhicules électriques en Europe, soit environ 1,1 million de voitures".

Evidence shows a continuing increase in the frequency and severity of global heatwaves1,2, raising concerns about the future impacts of climate change and the associated socioeconomic costs3,4. Here we develop a disaster footprint analytical framework by integrating climate, epidemiological and hybrid input–output and computable general equilibrium global trade models to estimate the midcentury socioeconomic impacts of heat stress. We consider health costs related to heat exposure, the value of heat-induced labour productivity loss and indirect losses due to economic disruptions cascading through supply chains. Here we show that the global annual incremental gross domestic product loss increases exponentially from 0.03 ± 0.01 (SSP 245)–0.05 ± 0.03 (SSP 585) percentage points during 2030–2040 to 0.05 ± 0.01–0.15 ± 0.04 percentage points during 2050–2060. By 2060, the expected global economic losses reach a total of 0.6–4.6% with losses attributed to health loss (37–45%), labour productivity loss (18–37%) and i

Als we binnen de grenzen van onze planeet streven naar welzijn voor iedereen, moeten we dringend nadenken over de manier waarop we onze grondstoffen en natuurlijke bronnen waarderen. Dat schrijft Mathias Schluep, algemeen directeur van het World Resources Forum.

New data on WRI's Aqueduct platform ranks the world's most water-stressed countries. One-quarter of the global population regularly use up their entire water supply.

Flash drought, characterized by unusually rapid drying, can have substantial impact on many socioeconomic sectors, particularly agriculture. However, potential changes to flash drought risk in a warming climate remain unknown. In this study, projected changes in flash drought frequency and cropland risk from flash drought are quantified using global climate model simulations. We find that flash drought occurrence is expected to increase globally among all scenarios, with the sharpest increases seen in scenarios with higher radiative forcing and greater fossil fuel usage. Flash drought risk over cropland is expected to increase globally, with the largest increases projected across North America (change in annual risk from 32% in 2015 to 49% in 2100) and Europe (32% to 53%) in the most extreme emissions scenario. Following low-end and medium scenarios compared to high-end scenarios indicates a notable reduction in annual flash drought risk over cropland. Flash droughts are projected to become more frequent unde

Le géant suisse des matières premières Glencore a essuyé de vives critiques pour sa stratégie dans le charbon mais tente une sortie de cette activité qui n'a plus la cote auprès des investisseurs à travers une offre à Teck Resources.Mais ce groupe minier canadien est déjà en train d'organiser la propre scission de ses activités de charbon et a repoussé à deux reprises les avances de son concurrent suisse.- Scission du charbon chez Teck -

Métaux rares, substances indispensables à la transition, exploitation zéro émission, techniques minières modernes, technologies intelligentes, impacts positifs sur la biodiversité, standards internationaux contraignants, nouvelles frontières extractives… Ces nouveaux concepts sont régulièrement mis en avant et contribuent à redorer l’image d’une industrie prédatrice et dangereuse. Pour lutter contre la diffusion d’idées reçues souvent questionnables, voire fausses, qui accompagnant ces concepts, SystExt s’est penchée sur les plus répandues d’entre elles. Pour ce faire, durant 2 ans, l’association a étudié près d’un millier de publications scientifiques, de rapports et d’articles de presse parmi les plus récents, et a complété ces données par ses retours d’expérience de terrain depuis 10 ans.

The deployment of low-tech requires taking into account the human factor and changing design practices.

The 1972 book "The Limits to Growth" shared a somber message for humanity: the Earth's resources are finite and probably cannot support current rates of economic and population growth to the end of the 21st century, even with advanced technology. Although disparaged by economists at the time, it turns out that, 50 years later, the message still deserves our attention.

To this day, the demand for metals has kept increasing. The energy transition necessary to meet climate objectives will add to that demand during the upcoming decades, for low-carbon energy technologies require larger metal quantities than their fossil-fuel based counterparts. This frequently raises concerns over the actual capacity of geological stocks to meet demand at scale, which we investigate in the present analysis.