The World’s Mineral Powers Seize Their Moment
Resource-rich countries haven’t always benefited from extraction. Can this time be different?
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The US Export-Import Bank is preparing to close the first funding tranche of Project Vault, a public-private partnership establishing the US Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve.
The UNFCCC process is marred by gridlock in the COP multilateral framework, threatening joint efforts by countries to mitigate the climate crisis.
Many analyses of what the conflict in the Middle East means for China's energy security have rightly focused on China's oil and natural gas imports from the region.
The White House declared last week that President Trump finally "broke OPEC" after the United Arab Emirates withdrew from the cartel.