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Floriano Filho's Japanese Studies Postdoc Fellowship
Home
Results
Activities
2022
2021
Quarterly Reports
Next
Chapters
China-LAC strategic relations
The Evolving Global Context
Trade & FDI as locomotives
Belt & Road
FEW nexus
Fertilizers and Geopolitics
New configuration implications for Japan
Strategic metals
Lithium & other metals global value chain
Strategic Metals for Aircrafts
Research
Data
Tools
Image bank
Book Publishing
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Home
Results
Activities
2022
2021
Quarterly Reports
Next
Chapters
China-LAC strategic relations
The Evolving Global Context
Trade & FDI as locomotives
Belt & Road
FEW nexus
Fertilizers and Geopolitics
New configuration implications for Japan
Strategic metals
Lithium & other metals global value chain
Strategic Metals for Aircrafts
Research
Data
Tools
Image bank
Book Publishing
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Lithium & other metals global value chain
Latin America’s Lithium: Critical Minerals and the Global Energy Transition
Global Combustion Car Sales Won’t Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels
New-vehicle sales in Brazil and Mexico are largely flat, and the numbers in Africa are still very small
Global vehicle sales hit their lowest since 2011 in 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the automotive industry hard in 2020. As consumers were not allowed to visit the showrooms and many factories around the globe were forced to shut down, the drop in ve…
Are electric cars definitely greener than petrol?
The UK is set to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.
China now world's largest exporter of new cars – report
Less than a decade-and-a-half after it became the largest new-car market, China has now become the biggest exporter of new motor vehicles, overtaking Japan, the US and Europe.
Warren Buffet-backed BYD plans push into India’s growing electric car market
The Chinese company is planning a bold push into India’s electric car market, joining a rush of foreign carmakers jockeying for a bigger share of the world’s fourth-biggest auto market.
Chinese Cars Gain Traction in Latin America and the World
Latin America is seeing a surge in sales of Chinese automobile brands – especially as the region’s EV transition heats up.
The global vehicle sales expansion continues in H1 2018 - JATO
JATO reports that global vehicle sales continued to grow during the first half of this year
Understanding Rare Earth Elements as Critical Raw Materials
The boom in technological advances in recent decades has led to increased demand for rare earth elements (REEs) (also known as rare earth metals) across various industries with wide-ranging industrial applications, including in the clean energy sector, but with some environmental, economic, and social footprint concerns. This paper reviews the complexities of the production, consumption, and reuse or recovery of REEs, presenting current trends in terms of potentials and challenges associated with this. This paper in particular focuses on the supply, demand, and (environmental and economic) sustainability of REEs, as a subset of critical raw materials. It does so via a critical stocktaking of key discussions and debates in the field over the past 15 years up until now, through a thematic analysis of the published and gray (policy) literature with a grounded theory approach. The paper finds that carefully balanced lifecycle sustainability assessments are needed for assessing the respective dimensions of the extraction, processing, and reuse or recovery methods for different types of REE sources and supplies to meet current and future demands. It furthermore diagnoses the need for taking into account some shifts and substitutions among REEs also for reasons of cost and locational supplies for the security of supply. Finally, the paper provides some overall policy recommendations for addressing current problems, with a conceptual framing of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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