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Ghana has spent over 60 years trying to build an aluminium industry.
Cobalt is a critical component in the production of batteries, smartphones, jet engines and electric vehicles. Yet miners who risk their lives digging it up receive almost none of the profits.
A gradual drawdown of gold mining is a critical step towards sustainability.
More than 60% of global intact forest loss is unrelated to farming, our research shows
Our prospects of a better, fairer future are inextricably linked with the minerals and metals beneath our feet. Is it time to make peace with the industry that extracts them?
Canada is connected to the Democratic Republic of Congo through the global economy, international peacekeeping efforts and migration. We must not ignore violence because it’s far away.
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Associate Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
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Lecturer in International Political Economy, King's College London
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Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
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Programme Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Professor of French Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor, Public and International Affairs, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Research Fellow in Emission and Trade Analysis, UCL
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Engineering, Fudan University
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Professor of Natural Resources and Development, University of Bath
