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Crash Course Commodity Transition June 2024 in Hamburg

From Leonel / 27.03.2024 Comments Disabled

‘The journey of copper: From the mine to the port to resource-efficient mobility" for political activists and multipliers from parties, trade unions, media, social movements and environmental and development organisations...

Solar power – the key to a just future

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Solar power – the key to a just future

From Leonel / 26.01.2024 Comments Disabled

PowerShift is committed to ensuring that the expansion of solar power not only contributes to combating the climate crisis, but is also designed in a socially just and environmentally sustainable way. In the focus [...]

PM: Critical Raw Materials Act: PowerShift criticizes threat to standards

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PM: Critical Raw Materials Act: PowerShift criticizes threat to standards

From Vanessa Fischer / 15.03.2023 Comments Disabled

Berlin, 14 March 2023: The EU Commission plans to bring the further processing of critical raw materials to Europe and also wants to promote the massive extraction of raw materials in the EU. This comes from [...]

Resource protection: Appeal for a transformation of the raw materials sector

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Resource protection: Appeal for a transformation of the raw materials sector

From Hannah Pilgrim / 08.12.2022 Comments Disabled

Transformation by design, not by disaster! For decades, we have been living beyond our means, consuming many times the metallic, fossil, mineral, and renewable resources that the planet can sustainably provide. [...]

Arguments against deep-sea mining

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Arguments against deep-sea mining

From Hannah Pilgrim / 05.12.2022 Comments Disabled

The deep sea is a unique habitat with an enormous biodiversity. Nevertheless, states are currently negotiating rules for the extraction of mineral raw materials from the deep-sea bottom. Deep-sea mining is...

Highest railway for the raw materials transition

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Highest railway for the raw materials transition

From Hannah Pilgrim / 30.03.2022 Comments Disabled

Stop metal imports from Russia and focus more on sustainability of German industry - we need a raw materials turnaround On 24 February 2022, the Russian military attacked Ukraine and [...]

On the way to regulating supply chain responsibility: Guidelines in the People's Republic of China

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On the way to regulating supply chain responsibility: Guidelines in the People's Republic of China

From Michael Reckordt / 08.12.2021 Comments Disabled

The Chinese government and Chinese companies are of great importance to the global economy. From the point of view of German and European companies, they are competitors in the competition, but also partners in [...]

The forgotten battery raw materials: Iron ore – electromobility on toxic sludge avalanches

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The forgotten battery raw materials: Iron ore – electromobility on toxic sludge avalanches

From Elena Gnant / 29.09.2021 Comments Disabled

Iron is an important raw material in battery production. It is installed in lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in the cathode and is necessary for the production of steel from which battery housings are made. Through [...]

The forgotten battery raw materials: bauxite and aluminium – dust in lungs, batteries in cars

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The forgotten battery raw materials: bauxite and aluminium – dust in lungs, batteries in cars

From Elisa Thomaset / 27.07.2021 Comments Disabled

Aluminum plays an important role in the production of batteries in two areas: On the one hand, in addition to steel, the raw material is regularly used in the production of the battery housing. On the other hand, [...]

The forgotten battery raw materials: Copper - When Conductivity Becomes Suffering

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The forgotten battery raw materials: Copper - When Conductivity Becomes Suffering

From Elisa Thomaset / 27.07.2021 Comments Disabled

Copper is a central raw material for the production of batteries due to its very good electrical conductivity. Although the raw material can be recycled several times without loss of quality, more than half [...]