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infrastructures) robustness to exceptional events and rethink
their operating conditions.
China has continued to increase its dominance in clean
technologies and strategic raw materials. Western countries
have responded by imposing sovereignty measures and
passing laws to create domestic markets for local production
of the needed equipments and favourable conditions for local
extraction of strategic minerals.
It is good that sovereignty is finally being considered in public
policy. But let’s not have illusions about the effectiveness of
customs barriers and embargoes.
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Colette Lewiner
WEMO 2024
Peaceful agreements between countries are the best way of
achieving the objectives of the energy transition, especially
as pollution is global. However, the present geopolitical
tensions should ease to make this possible.
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