More countries than ever before agree that the global shipping industry must step up action to tackle its impacts on the climate. A clear majority of delegates intervening at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) climate talks last week (MEPC 78) were in favour of revising the IMO’s current climate strategy to decarbonise shipping by 2050 .
“If you can’t grow it, you have to mine it” goes the miner’s credo. The extraction of minerals, metals and fuels from the ground is one of humankind’s oldest industries. And our appetite for it is growing. Society is more dependent on both greater variety and larger volumes of mined substances than ever before. If .