Researchers say the most dramatic increase in the need for investment is in power generation from renewable energies. 

Commodity prices are always volatile, but in 2022 metal and mining markets reached new levels of turbulence, as the pandemic played out in China and the Ukraine war upended global energy. 

The incident reportedly happened on December 13, a day before de Ruyter resigned from the top post at the power utility.

Activists gathered in Lützerath as the mid-January deadline for demolishing the village to make room for a coal mine expansion approaches.

A team at Ohio University carried out a series of simulations showing how coal can be converted to valuable—and carbon-neutral—materials.