Kaisa Toroskainen

Sustainable battery value chains @ Global Battery Alliance. 👀 on Africa, critical minerals. 🤓 all things political economy of development. Views are my own.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

It’s crazy how the tables have turned in the world economy.

Not long ago, China was attracting investment from the West to create jobs and acquire technology.

Now, Western leaders are asking for Chinese investment to do the same thing in their home countries.

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

Need collaboration, not competition. Neither should be at the cost of race environmental and social safeguards or developing producing countries’ use of local content policies to develop value chains.

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

Inability of China-Russia+ bloc to import copper, nickel, lithium, and cobalt from Chile, the DRC, and Indonesia etc. would lead to a price increase of 300%. In US-EU+, fragmentation would cause oversupply as use of minerals is constrained by time to scale up refining capacity.

[IMF @IMFNews]

Critical minerals such as copper, cobalt, lithium, and nickel–all used to make everything from EV batteries to solar panels to wind turbines--are highly vulnerable to trade restrictions and can affect the cost of the climate transition. Read more in F&D. https://t.co/4GACl71HYF

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Historically, much of the gender gap in earnings could be explained by differences in education and occupational choices. However, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between men and women in the same occupation, and that it largely arises with the birth of the first child.

#NobelPrize

[Touko Sipiläinen @Touko_S]

Tämän karmivan faktan äärelle on syytä pysähtyä:

🔴Maailman 7 kuuminta päivää tod.näk. yli 100 000 vuoteen koettiin seitsemänä peräkkäisenä päivänä tämän viikon maanantaihin asti🔴

4.7. 17,18°C
5.7. 17,18°C
6.7. 17,23°C
7.7. 17,20°C
8.7. 17,17°C
9.7. 17,11°C
10.7. 17,12°C

1/🧵

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

Excited to explore the new report and accompanying data tools by @IEA :
The IEA Critical Minerals Data Explorer and the Critical Minerals Policy Tracker

[International Energy Agency @IEA]

Our first ever Critical Minerals Market Review is out now! 📢

It shows the market for minerals that help power electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels & other key clean energy technologies has doubled in size over the past 5️⃣ years

Read more ⬇️ https://t.co/TbX85LAEJp

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

EU’s carbon border tax: a new report by @AfricaAtLSE shows Africa stands to lose US$25 billion every year
(=3x EU development aid to Africa)

What’s missing? Int’l climate finance & African countries’ own green industrialization plans
https://t.co/tWRCdy8u1M @TC_Africa

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

“An E.V. is a good way to cut carbon emissions, but so, it turns out, is a four-day workweek.”

Great take on how we need solutions from both in- and outside the current paradigm. And fast. ⁦@billmckibben⁩ https://t.co/Yc49E7dJfW

[Mining Shared Value @ewb_msv]

Useful reading for our #EITI2023 session today with @NRGInstitute at 16:45, NRGI's Beneath the Surface explores the importance, and risks for #corruption in the massive flows of money via #procurement of goods and services by extractive industry companies https://t.co/MasyXANa21

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

Looking forward to discussions at #EITI2023 in Dakar on advances of EITI in #CôtedIvoire on #beneficialownership, #communitypayments & #localcontent, supported by @giz_gmbh.

And looking ahead, to learning about EITI’s role on new topics #environment, #ASM, #anticorruption

[EITI International @EITIorg]

#EITI2023 kicks off today! We are thrilled to welcome EITI stakeholders from all around the world 🌍 to #Dakar to discuss the past, present and future of extractives #transparency.

💡 We want to know: What does #TransparencyInTransition mean to you?

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Without changes to how they are made, “batteries will just be a new, innovative way to create the same old emissions,” explains Peter Carlsson, the head of Northvolt, in guest commentary https://t.co/0mCWZmIMfw

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

Succinct report by IPCEI on battery supply chains: #EU production, processing of nickel, manganese, cobalt, lithium and graphite can increase. Yet bottom line is: EU must diversify supply sources - in a sustainable way also for producing countries. #CBAM https://t.co/ug5LMcZkNK

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

@anupartanen @hsfi Yhtenäiskulttuurissamme hyvinkin mahdollista että ”uutiset” esim. asuntokaupan pysähtymisestä ohjaavat ihmisten käyttäytymistä. Olisi kiinnostavaa tutkia tätä, vertailuna muut Euroopan maat, joissa samat inflaatio- ja korkotrendit mutta ei (ehkä?) kollektiivista paralyysia.

[ONU Femmes Côte d'Ivoire @onufemmesCIV]

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Date limite de candidature : 31/12/2022 à 23h59 !

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

Pleasure to participate in this discussion with and share @giz’s experience on supporting our partners in Côte d’Ivoire on mine closure and rehabilitation.

[IGF Mining @IGFMining]

Environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) are critical for good #mining governance. Participants at the #IGFAGM are discussing how to diagnose gaps in legal and policy frameworks for ESIAs in the mining sector.

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

2.Cost of Clean Energy / This Way Up Podcast from @BHRRC https://t.co/42LlKPU1dK

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

#batterymetals, #criticalminerals, #supplychains, #duediligence, #cobalt, #lithum.. buzzwords on everyone’s lips.

2 great podcast series to get up to speed on responsible sourcing of metals we need for the energy transition:

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

1.Responsible sourcing by Natural Resources Podcast by @highgrademedia https://t.co/w0jrFH3GyA

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

Looking forward to discussing #localcontent, procurement and supply chains at #MiningIndaba2022

[Mining Shared Value @ewb_msv]

#Localcontent will be on the agenda today at #MiningIndaba2022 during the Infrastructure and Supply Chain Forum with these two sessions at 13:50 and 15:25 https://t.co/tEr1tWsJGf #ESG #MI2022

[Kaisa Toroskainen @kaisatoroskai]

@Ulkoministerio Tavoitteet ovat kannatettavia. Mitä tuloksia on saatu aikaan ensimmäisen vuoden aikana?