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A recent one relationship of the non-profit organization Global Witness, based in the UK and US, details how a new mining rush driven by demand for minerals to produce clean energy is risking reproducing the same model of extractivism that has impoverished African countries for centuries.The organization's investigation is based on some projects lithium extraction in Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia:in all three extraction projects the dynamics of exploitation who have plundered African territories to this day, reproducing forms of extractive colonialism which again only has the materials that are extracted. We hear more and more often about the need for energy transition as salvation from climate change and the environmental crisis;an energy transition based on "new materials", the so-called "rare earths", necessary for energy storage and for electric vehicles, but not only.In fact, rare earths are used for the increasingly faster process of digit...

It started today third part from the 28th session of the ISA, the International Seabed Authority, the intergovernmental body responsible for overseeing deep-sea mining operations and protecting the oceans.The meeting session will last until November 8th.Marking what is a key step for global ocean policies was the request presented on Wednesday by around a hundred environmental groups who asked for a moratorium on underwater mining precisely in view of the meeting that opened today in Kingston, Jamaica.Opponents to deep sea mining in fact, they fear that the way is being paved for the beginning of exploitation in the near future, despite the devastating consequences - still little explored - that mining on the ocean floor will have on the marine ecosystem.The worst - the activists point out - is that everything is being passed off as a practice that will make the world more sustainable by helping the energy transition away from fossil fuels. I'm alone 21 countries who took sides a few m...

It is often believed that energy from petroleum sources is much cheaper than renewable sources:a belief that forgets a non-negligible detail, that of the enormous public subsidies that extractive activities and the multinationals that lead them receive from states in the form of direct or indirect financing.This river of money continues to flow, and indeed, in 2022 - despite the much vaunted green transition - it set a new record.In fact, in the past year, only the G20 countries spent 1.4 trillion dollars to finance fossil fuels.The enormous figure was estimated by a relationship of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), adding direct subsidies, investments by state-owned enterprises and loans by public financial institutions.According to the data collected, the twenty largest economies in the world have far exceeded the amount spent on fossil fuels in previous years, spending more than double compared to 2019. At the time, moreover, the "energy...