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Standards encompass the rules, specifications, testing approaches, and conformity procedures that define the qualities products and services must meet to access a market, covering everything from technical requirements for home…

The global response to plastics has produced partial wins and many persistent failures. Production continues to expand, waste systems are under-resourced, policy mixes rely heavily on voluntary industry action, and…

Biodiversity — the variety of life across genes, species and ecosystems — is not an environmental abstract reserved for scientists and conservationists. It underpins the goods, services and resilience that…

When a nation limits the export of essential foods or critical agricultural inputs, the impact spreads through markets, households, governments, and international relations. Export restrictions can take the form of…

Critical minerals are naturally occurring elements and compounds on which modern economies rely for manufacturing, the energy transition, and defense, yet their supply chains often remain fragile or highly concentrated.…

Tech export controls refer to government-imposed rules that limit how specific technologies may be sold, transferred, or shared across borders, covering everything from hardware components and complete devices to software,…

Carbon capture represents not one technology or policy but a broad set of methods that extract carbon dioxide from flue gases or directly from the atmosphere and then either store…

Strong harvests are a natural expectation for lower food prices, but the relationship between production volumes and retail prices is far from direct. Prices reflect the interaction of physical supply,…

For the first time in decades, Iranians woke to a country without Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, following his death in coordinated US-Israeli strikes. The nation now confronts a…