Event of APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax

#ResourceCurse and #MoneyLaundering - hearing details of how illicit gold, #fossilfuels and #CriticalMinerals fueling corruption and conflict: City of London & UAE at heart

#Sudan #Ukraine

Congo's new US mineral deal draws opposition. Deja vu? From Lumumba's assassination to today, 'partnerships' often mean resource extraction for others, not prosperity for Congolese. #DRC #ResourceCurse

Read more: piaz.news/article/the-perennial-sc...

Heavy gunfire in Guinea? Just another day in the resource wars. When will the world connect the dots between 'instability' and who profits from 25% of the world's bauxite? #Guinea #ResourceCurse

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Canadian mining firm's workers found dead in Mexico is more than 'cartel violence.' It's a harsh reminder of how global resource extraction fuels shadow economies & violence in vulnerable states. Who truly profits? #ResourceCurse

Read more: https://piaz.news/article/the-silver-lining-of-violence

DW asks 'how can Africa cash in on gold?' Curiously, they don't ask who's been cashing out for centuries. Hint: it's not Africans. #ResourceCurse #Africa

Read more: piaz.news/article/the-golden-hands...

Chile's 'copper boom' promising 4% growth, per FT, echoes a familiar extractivist pattern. Will wealth be shared, or will deregulation primarily benefit foreign capital, as history often dictates? #ResourceCurse #Chile

Read more: piaz.news/article/chile-s-copper-b...

Somaliland offers minerals to Israel for recognition. A pattern as old as colonialism: developing nations trading sovereignty for resource access. Who truly benefits? #Geopolitics #ResourceCurse

Read more: piaz.news/article/somaliland-resou...

Balochistan isn't 'troubled'; it's a strategically vital resource battleground. External powers and local elites profit while locals suffer. Sound familiar? #Geopolitics #CPEC #ResourceCurse

Read more: piaz.news/article/the-geopolitics-...

Dubai unveils world's first "Gold Street" while built with the stolen resources of a criminal state. Africa has done nothing to stop the plunder fueling such luxury abroad.

#BloodGold #CriminalState #Exploitation #Africa #Dubai #ResourceCurse

13/ Renouncing finite fuels & prioritising low-cost #Renewables reduces the risk of a #resourcecurse by 2050 & enables cost-effective, carbon-neutral power. In #IEAscenarios, fuel switching (coal → gas/nuclear) poses the highest sustainability risk, affecting regional #EROI.

3/ 🆕 The key novelty lies in linking regional #PowerSystemModelling with a systemwide #EROI framework, allowing us to test whether a sustainable #energy transition is feasible regionally under real resource and policy constraints, without encountering RE-based #resourcecurse.

1/ New research from @lut.fi shows how uneven natural resource distribution shapes regional #EROI during the energy transition. doi.org/10.1029/2025.... 🌍 Can regions transition to sustainable #NetZero energy systems without triggering a #RenewableEnergy-based #resourcecurse? 📢

Conditional Independence! - Stratheia Maduro’s detention signals a new era of coercive power, exposing the fragility of sovereignty for the Global South.

Resource wealth without deterrence is a liability. Oil did not protect Venezuela—it exposed it.
#EnergyPolitics #StrategicReality #ResourceCurse
stratheia.com/conditional-...

Is the Iranian Economy about to Collapse? - Stratheia Why Iran’s oil-rich economy underperforms as sanctions, Dutch disease, and inflation push it toward recession and renewed nuclear diplomacy.

Dutch disease has left Iran rich in resources but poor in resilience. When oil falters, the entire economy suffers.
#EnergyEconomics #DutchDisease #ResourceCurse
stratheia.com/is-the-irani...

Definitely also true for #Brasil (just reading #Baumarães - Export Boom and #ResourceCurse in Brazilian history. In Studies of World Environmental History.)

Critical Resources could Make or Break COP30 & All Our Futures Martha Molfetas argues that Belem offers an opportunity to address the devil in the energy transition details.

Hot off the presses> Check out my latest in @globalpolicy.bsky.social for how #CriticalResources could make or break @cop30brazil.bsky.social & all our futures.

www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/30/10/2...

#Mining #JustTransition #Workforces #ResourceCurse #COP30 #ClimateAction #EnergyTransition

Check out my latest piece in @globalpolicy.bsky.social.

#CriticalResources are integral to our #EnergyTransition and for modern #technology, but have been absent from annual #climate meetings. That could all change at Belem’s #COP30.

#JustTransition #Workforces #ResourceCurse #ResourceGovernance

In Oil-Rich Guyana, Ali’s Landslide Reelection Masks Simmering Challenges Guyana’s election unfolded peacefully and the economy is booming. But trouble may be brewing under the surface.

Key question is whether #Guyana can avoid the pitfalls of #DutchDisease & #ResourceCurse, more on this in my book, freely available on ciep.energy -www.worldpoliticsreview.com/guyana-election-oil-ali/

Guyana Election Rivals Want a Bigger State Share of Oil Revenue Opposition presidential candidates are pledging to renegotiate Exxon’s oil contract to help alleviate rising inflation in the South American nation.

Key question is whether #Guyana can avoid the pitfalls of #DutchDisease & #ResourceCurse; more on this in my book From Dutch Disease to Energy Transition, freely available on ciep.energy - www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Ugh. More #ResourceCurse madness. Australian technology and innovation killed off because "we can't do that here".

Absolutely dismal performance on R&D spend by Australia. But hey, there's plenty more raw material to keep digging out of the ground, right? 🤦 #ResourceCurse

Namibia vows to dodge “resource curse” as massive oil and gas bonanza unveiled Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industries, Mines and Energy, Natangwe Iithete, delivered a powerful message of both immense opportunity and stark warning at the opening of the Namibia Oil and Gas Conference 2025 today. While unveiling the scale of recent offshore discoveries – estimated at a staggering 11 billion

#Namibia #OilAndGas #ResourceCurse #EnergyConference #EconomicOpportunity

"Story-telling needs to be at the heart of a global politics of vitality"

I was in conversation with @amitav.bsky.social at @edbookfest.bsky.social on his book Wild Fictions, a dazzling and demanding collection that opens windows you didn't know were there

#environment #resourcecurse #literature

Opinion | The Cleveland-Cliffs Tariff Switcheroo CEO Goncalves pitches his steel plants to foreign buyers after calling Nippon Steel a threat to national security.

www.wsj.com/opinion/clev...

#resourcecurse

Sarah Logan on Substack DRC extended its cobalt export ban for a further 3 months, leading CMOC to declare force majeure on some of its cobalt deliveries earlier this week, joining Glencore who declared force majeure earlier...

substack.com/@africanextr...

Another interesting read by Sarah Logan

#resourcecurse #DRC

What to consider with a minerals-for-security deal for DRC A US-DRC deal may be agreed by the end of this month. What could it entail? What are the prospects for unlocking US mining investments in DRC? And what would a deal need to offer DRC to make sense?

What to consider with a minerals-for-security deal for DRC substack.com/@africanextr...
by Sarah Logan

#resourcecurse #DRC

#resourcecurse

Trump administration looks to bring back mining near Boundary Waters After a mining provision was removed from the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' Trump officials say they are working to allow mining again in parts of northern Minnesota.

Trump administration looks to bring back mining near Boundary Waters

bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

#resourcecurse

#resourcecurse

Increased Demand for Cobalt Fuels Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In pursuit of money to support their families, Congolese laborers face abuse and life-threatening conditions working in unregulated mines.

Increased Demand for #Cobalt Fuels Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

#DRC #minerals #ResourceCurse #WorkerExploitation