Sweden is advancing its position in the European battery landscape with a €2.4 million initiative aimed at establishing a fully circular and traceable battery value chain.
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India stands at the cusp of one of the largest economic transformations in its history, with the potential to attract USD 4.1 trillion in cumulative green investments and generate 48 million full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs by 2047, according to a new assessment by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).
Efforts to build circular packaging systems in Southeast Asia are accelerating as governments and global companies confront the region’s escalating waste challenge.
Petrochemical production accounts for an estimated 15% of global oil demand, and as electrification and renewable energy penetration increase, the sector is exploring decarbonization pathways beyond bio-based feedstocks.
The UK’s exposure to concentrated global supply chains for critical minerals has become increasingly difficult to ignore as demand for electrification accelerates.
Global lithium-ion battery waste is projected to rise from roughly 500,000 tons in 2019 to as much as eight million tons by 2040, a sixteen-fold increase that underscores one of the energy transition’s least discussed bottlenecks: the lack of scalable, safe, and economically viable recycling systems.
Vietnam’s pivot to a circular economy (CE) took a decisive turn this quarter, as more than 200 delegates, including academics, government officials, international organizations, and industry representatives, gathered at a forum organized by the Institute of Vietnam and World Economy to advance the national CE agenda.
At a time when industrial sectors account for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, SKF’s presence at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, underscores a pivotal shift toward embedding circularity into the fabric of heavy industry.
Recovering critical materials from discarded solar panels could create a ₹3,700 crore market opportunity in India by 2047, according to new studies from the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).
Europe’s circular economy is moving from ambition to measurable impact, with Valladolid, Spain, at the center of the transformation. SMX has partnered with research center CARTIF to implement a molecular “physical-to-digital” platform, enabling industrial materials to carry digital passports that trace their lifecycle from production to reuse.