Climate protection - 2 News from the science department by Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) from Germany

Climate protection - 2 News from the science department by Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) from Germany

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Will the climate transition be a battle of materials?

Heavy additional demand for commodities like cobalt, lithium, copper, aluminium and iron: Countermeasures include behavioural changes in mobility, housing and nutritin

06-Jun-2024 - As things stand today, global demand for cobalt and lithium for e-car batteries will increase almost twenty-fold by 2050. By then, the development of a fossil-free power supply will require a lot of copper, aluminium and iron, and the respective demand is likely to roughly double. Rare earth ...

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How green cities could remove CO2 from the atmosphere

One gigatonne per year by mid-century: An study determines the potentials, various co-benefits and possible barriers to implementation

06-May-2024 - More than a thousand cities around the world now have “net zero” pledges: they want to emit only as much CO2 into the atmosphere as they can simultaneously recapture. An elaborate meta-study has now summarised the state of knowledge on which methods might be useful and what they could achieve. ...

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