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D.R.Congo: Dirty Metals for Clean Energy - The Green Line - Ep 4

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The Green Line is a five-part miniseries focusing on the near-term geopolitical implications of climate change. Michael Hilliard looks at one country in particular: The Democratic Republic of Congo, also known as the DRC. We are barreling into a position where our entire green revolution rests on a country that is not only ethnically fracturing, but seeing cross-border skirmishes with its regional neighbours. And if we're going to make more electric vehicles, we'll need more cobalt, which means we'reGoing to need to get more invested into the DRC and other countries like Angola for neodymium or Madagascar for Turbium. So how is a nation like

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