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Why US v China is failing the world

While the energy transition has become another front on the geopolitical rivalry between the great powers, the rapid construction of supply chains needed to bring emissions-reduction to the whole world is a precarious business, as Ian Morse reports.

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pv magazine

07 Sep 2023

Tesla has signed a supply deal with mine operator Prony Resources, to gain better control of raw material supplies from the Goro Nickel Mine in New Caledonia. | Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Deploying the clean power and energy storage capacity needed to combat climate change could either challenge or entrench the geopolitics that led the world to this pass.When the Paris Agreement was signed, in 2015, supply chains weren’t focused on rapid climate action. Formerly niche raw materials are now front and center, and many others are …

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