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Empowering women through clean power technologies has been put firmly on the agenda thanks to recent events held by the United Nations and Ashden Awards. So how is clean tech changing lives and how can it be scaled up to game-changing levels?

Groundbreaking research showing the potential of microbes to treat radioactive waste has shed light on how toxic materials could be disposed of in the future.

The massive earthquake which struck Chile in early April this year miraculously left the country's copper operations unscathed. Copper prices rose markedly, however, as investors waited to see what the fallout could be for the world's biggest producer. How didChile's copper industry weather the earthquake so successfully and what could the consequences have been had things gone differently?

The decision by Iraq to invite interest in a number of solar independent power producer (IPP) projects is not the first time that Baghdad has sought to push ahead with competitively tendered IPP schemes.