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Green Transition, Extractive Continuities: Lithium Mining and the Environmental Contradictions of Sustainability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

A Technology‐First Framework for SDG Implementation in Carbon‐Based Economies: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Only 17% of Sustainable Development Goal indicators are globally on track, yet the structural conditions explaining this failure remain inadequately theorised for fossil‐fuel‐dependent economies. This study develops and empirically tests a four‐layer loop framework of Technology, Well‐being, Social Equity, and Sustainability closing through ...
Sameh W. H. Al‐Muqdadi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Inclusion and Carbon‐Intensive Path Dependence: Evidence From Oil‐Exporting Economies

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether financial inclusion mitigates environmental degradation or, conversely, reinforces carbon‐intensive development pathways in oil‐exporting economies, consistent with carbon lock‐in dynamics. Drawing on resource curse and structural specialization frameworks, we argue that financial deepening may amplify carbon ...
Tasos Stylianou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Evidence on the Impact of Energy Poverty on Industrial Performance in Africa

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrialisation is essential for Africa's long‐term development, offering a pathway to economic diversification, employment creation and resilience to external shocks. Given the continent's demographic and structural challenges, transitioning to higher value‐added, technologically advanced industries is a necessity.
Abdoul Karim Théophile Ouedraogo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Energy Security and Sustainability in the GCC: The Conditional and Contested Role of AI and Digital Infrastructure

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies pursue simultaneous commitments to national AI strategies, renewable energy targets, and Paris Agreement pledges, a key sustainable‐management question remains empirically unresolved: does digital and AI investment genuinely advance energy security and environmental sustainability in hydrocarbon ...
Alanoud Al‐Maadid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

NRS-350 | Oath forms

open access: yes
The Oath forms comprise the Oath of Allegiance and the Judicial Oath, which all Justices must swear, and record the signature of the person to whom the oath had been administered.

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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

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