Climate and energy

Shifting Australia’s electricity sector to low-carbon technologies and closing coal plants is vital to tackling climate change. But such transitions are easier said than done.

A new program launched by The University of Queensland (UQ) will provide an authoritative accounting of how much metal is needed for the energy transition, where it will come from, and what needs to be done to sustainably supply it.

A team from the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining has launched a new teaching and learning resource promoting awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing low-carbon energy transition dynamics across the Arctic.

Energy transition minerals are essential to tackling climate change. But First Nations people must have a genuine say in where and how this happens.

Fiji’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations H.E. Dr. Satyendra Prasad announced the launch of the Blue Concrete Initiative at a side event of the COP 27 climate summit.

Global demand for energy transition metals to support a clean energy transition is increasing pressure to extract more terrestrial and seabed minerals and metals from the Pacific. So what is the risk of the Pacific becoming a sacrifice zone in the name of a global energy transition?