Australia, US, Canada, UK commit $76 million to clean energy research
Projects on a completely renewable energy power grid and hydrogen production are being developed under the National Science Foundation Global Centers program.
Chinese firms have been involved in 89 announced acquisitions and investments in Canadian metals and mining companies in the past decade, according to Bloomberg data.
A growing number of member states of the ISA have called for a “precautionary pause” or moratorium on mining due to the lack of scientific data on fragile and biodiverse deep ocean ecosystems targeted for exploitation.