Latin America: This Century’s Commodity Superpower?
August 9th, 2023
Via The Economist, a look at how a growing, greening world will be ravenous for Latin America’s commodities: The ground approaching the salt flats in Chile’s Atacama desert is pockmarked with white crystals. Underneath sit vast deposits of lithium salts, the ore for the soft, light metal used to make high-capacity batteries. Pumps run by sqm, […]
Read more »The New Commodity Superpowers
August 8th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at nations such as the DRC, Argentina, Chile, and Indonesia, – the countries that produce the metals central to the energy transition who want to rewrite the rules of mineral extraction: The red-brown landscape of Tenke-Fungurume, one of the world’s largest copper and cobalt mines in the Democratic […]
Read more »The Mineral-Rich Want to Get Richer
July 29th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how the world’s biggest reserves of lithium and nickel are concentrated in a handful of nations, and they want to cash in: The quest for a global energy transition has sparked a frenzied scramble for the raw materials underpinning everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines—and the mineral-rich […]
Read more »What Could a New Era Mean for Latin America?
July 25th, 2023
Courtesy of McKinsey, a report on how current global challenges could usher in a new era for Latin American economies: At a glance The current global upheaval may feel unprecedented, but there have been similar periods of acute disruption in recent history, each of which gave birth to a new era with its own distinctive […]
Read more »China: Secretly Fueling A Renewable Energy Boom in Latin America
July 16th, 2023
Via Fortune, an article on China’s renewable energy-driven interest in Latin America: The story of renewable energy’s rapid rise in Latin America often focuses on Chinese influence, and for good reason. China’s government, banks and companies have propelled the continent’s energy transition, with about 90% of all wind and solar technologies installed there produced by Chinese companies. […]
Read more »Latin American Renewables Boom: Not Just A China Story
July 6th, 2023
Courtesy of The Asia Times, a report on Latin America’s renewable industry where Chinese firms back the lion’s share of projects but homegrown industries and ‘frugal innovation’ also are key: The story of renewable energy’s rapid rise in Latin America often focuses on Chinese influence, and for good reason. China’s government, banks and companies have […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.