UN report flags disproportionate costs of clean energy transition

Mongabay
Apr 30, 2026, 3:04 am129 ptsTrending
A new report published by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) warns that wealthy nations’ push toward cleaner energy comes with high environmental and social costs in mineral-producing countries. The investigation links the extraction of transition minerals…

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