Excellent paper by @palmapolyak.bsky.social showing distinct models of "clean tech" with very different outcomes for place.
Shows some of the complicated relationships between decarbonisation efforts, industrial policy, & geopolitics.
Mia Gray
There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China.
But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves.
New paper & thread 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....