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Ken Van Weyenberg, Water, Equities, Circular Economy

The transition's next challenge: beyond clean energy

The environmental transition is often presented as a clean-energy story. However, as electrification scales, a different question is becoming more important: can the global economy secure, reuse and manage the resources needed to make the transition possible?
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