{"id":1519,"date":"2021-05-15T15:37:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/15\/record-metals-boom-may-threaten-transition-to-green-energy\/"},"modified":"2021-05-15T15:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:37:01","slug":"record-metals-boom-may-threaten-transition-to-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/15\/record-metals-boom-may-threaten-transition-to-green-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Record metals boom may threaten transition to green energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand and prices are soaring for minerals essential to the construction of low-carbon infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>The commodities boom ignited by China\u2019s post-Covid recovery, and stoked by the global move to green energy, broke price records last week even as fears about inflation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/may\/11\/ftse-100-shares-us-inflation-tech-stock-markets\" title=\"\">stalked the markets<\/a>. But it also risks triggering a rush on metals and minerals that could derail climate action.<\/p>\n<p>Iron ore reached the apex of a super-rally that drove prices to $237.57 a tonne in New York on Wednesday. The record followed a surge in demand from China\u2019s steel-making regions, now recovering after the pandemic, which has pushed prices up from less than $94 this time last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/may\/15\/record-metals-boom-may-threaten-transition-to-green-energy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/21262f1ad57bbd7c4b06ee12e53241e732db258e\/0_0_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b6415d1504514d08edf5723cd940c18f\" title=\"Record metals boom may threaten transition to green energy\" \/>Demand and prices are soaring for minerals essential to the construction of low-carbon infrastructure<br \/>\nThe commodities boom ignited by China\u2019s post-Covid recovery, and stoked by the global move to green energy, broke price records last week even as fears about inflation stalked the markets. But it also risks triggering a rush on metals and minerals that could derail climate action.<br \/>\nIron ore reached the apex of a super-rally that drove prices to $237.57 a tonne in New York on Wednesday. The record followed a surge in demand from China\u2019s steel-making regions, now recovering after the pandemic, which has pushed prices up from less than $94 this time last year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand and prices are soaring for minerals essential to the construction of low-carbon infrastructure The commodities boom ignited by China\u2019s post-Covid recovery, and stoked by the global move to green energy, broke price records last week even as fears about inflation stalked the markets. But it also risks triggering a rush on metals and minerals &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/15\/record-metals-boom-may-threaten-transition-to-green-energy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Record metals boom may threaten transition to green energy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}