Energy and the Environment

The Biden administration looks to domestic lithium mining to boost U.S. energy security and counter China.

The continent is awash in fossil fuel discoveries. But relying on them for development will be disastrous.

Debt-for-nature swaps on a grand scale could slow climate change and promote economic growth in the Global South.

The rodent’s reputation, revamped.

Environmental questions linger over the Nusantara project.

Clean energy was not a priority for voters—and a weakened ANC will make climate-friendly policies even less likely.

With constant assaults on the electricity grid, Moscow is adding an explosive twist to an old playbook.

Small island states are pointing the way on finding innovative funding.

After years of riding high, EU elections are about to send the continent’s green parties back to earth.

Doomism robs people of the agency and incentive to participate in a solution to the climate crisis.

A vote for continuity could see further erosion of democratic institutions—with consequences for the rest of the world.

The country cannot expand and modernize its infrastructure under the primacy of two state companies.

Even with the suspension of power cuts, voters remain skeptical ahead of the country's general elections.

How traceability schemes have wound up hurting Congo’s people.

Violent riots in New Caledonia are having an outsized global impact on critical mineral supply chains.