Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: January 1, 2025
The Lobito Corridor!
America’s investments in the Lobito Corridor across Angola and Zambia will secure much-needed copper for the clean energy revolution while boosting development in the region.
Tell Congress to sustain the Lobito Corridor project investments!
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Reasons For Hope
December 2, 2024 saw the first-ever visit by a sitting U.S. President to the African nation of Angola. A core focus of the visit was the Lobito Corridor project, an effort to extend a railway line from Angola’s seaport Lobito on the Atlantic to the vast copper mines of Zambia in the African interior. (The global cleantech boom needs lots and lots of copper, a key component of electricity-carrying wires).
The Lobito Corridor project is widely viewed as a major U.S. geopolitical priority and a critical counterbalance to Chinese influence in Africa. Beyond the already-considerable geopolitical and economic impact of a new railway linking a major minerals region to the ocean, America is investing in a wide range of much-needed development projects in Angola and Zambia along the Lobito Corridor, including land-mine removal, solar minigrids, school meals, grain silos, drinking water treatment, and much more.
Furthermore, American companies are gaining unprecedented access to vital critical minerals in the region, with fascinating new collaborations emerging rapidly To take just one example, U.S. startup KoBold using AI analysis of existing geology data to discover (and soon, mine) a gigantic new copper lode in Zambia.
“Significant investments along the Lobito Corridor are fostering sustainable economic development and advancing key U.S. strategic interests.
Our projects in Angola and across the region reflect the U.S. government's commitment to enhancing infrastructure, promoting the free flow of commerce, and diversifying critical supply chains.”
— U.S. International Development Finance Corporation CEO Scott Nathan
The array of new strategic American investments along the Lobito Corridor collectively constitute a much-needed surge in U.S. federal support for American industry, clean energy progress, and African development. The incoming Congress must continue the forward momentum on this vital geopolitical and economic initiative.
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