Investing in sustainable consumption and production patterns, which is the UN’s 12th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG12), looks set to present tempting opportunities for foreign direct investment ...

With much of the world’s attention focused on wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles, natural gas has grown in importance as the backbone of modern energy systems. It fuels power plants, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. Wind turbines and solar panels merge in desert alternative energy ...

Business is increasingly aligning its activities with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A recent report shows that 43 percent of the world’s largest 250 companies are now ...

China's Dahaize Mine is utilizing AI and automation to achieve unprecedented productivity and profitability in coal extraction, with each worker generating nearly $1 million in annual output. Despite ...

The world is experiencing declining per capita affordable supply of essential resources like diesel, copper, and platinum, largely due to persistently low prices that disincentivize new production and ...

Reconstruction of the production-consumption process involving pottery and food in early Shangshan culture. (A) Plant procurement: collecting wild plants and harvesting rice; (B) plant processing: for ...

(b) Brief Definition: Actual prices paid by final consumer for energy. (c) Unit of Measurement: US dollars per unit of energy (different units). (d) Placement in the CSD Indicator Set: The indicator ...

An NRC committee will define and evaluate key external costs and benefits--health, environmental, security, and infrastructure--associated with the production, distribution, and consumption of energy ...

As the global economy evolves, one truth has become undeniable: long-term economic growth is not built on trading and importing but on local production and value creation. For Nigeria and indeed for ...