In this blog, PhD researcher Hiroyuki Tsuji reflects on key insights from the Global Coal Transition Conference in Ohio, exploring critical differences in coal transitions across the Global North and South, and pondering how lessons from these diverse contexts might inform equitable and inclusive strategies for coal-dependent communities worldwide. Coal transition across the Global North…

Dr. Thelma Arko, a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with Utrecht University, has contributed a critical article to the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). Her thought-provoking blog explores how the rapid expansion of global carbon offset markets reinforces land dispossession and inequities in Africa, calling for urgent reforms centered on justice and equity. While carbon markets…

In some cases, minerals are found in remote areas where there are no social infrastructures and/or there are only scattered populations. In these cases, mining firms must build campsites or so-called mining towns to house their workers. Nevertheless, there are cases in which minerals are found in areas near existing urban settlements, which creates a…

I was watching the quarter-final World Cup game in a local bar in Moatize. It was Croatia – Brazil. I naturally expected that people (most of them were from Moatize) would support Brazil because of the cultural and historical connections that the two countries have. Still, I realised there were certain people, and not a…