White House increases Chinese tariffs for critical industries like solar cells, batteries

Photo by Paul Teysen on Unsplash.) President Biden is directing increases in tariffs targeting China across sectors like steel and aluminum, semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries, critical minerals, solar cells, and…

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Will a billionaire bankroll biodiversity? CBD Decision 15/9 as potential ‘goldmine’ (commentary)

Economic metaphors can be ironic, unexpectedly so. The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the 1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established a “multilateral mechanism for benefit-sharing from…

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