Zambia's plan to dig its way out of debt with a copper revival

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : It is one example of the cash flowing from outside the traditional world of mining to address a looming shortfall of copper, one of the most important raw materials for the global energy transition.
52% :Successive Zambian governments, she adds, have focused on taxation as a means to spread value from copper mines to the population, which is now close to 20mn.
49% : An indicator of quality can be seen in grades of copper and how much is extracted per ore tonne, which affects everything from the cost of extraction to the carbon footprint of mining and exposure to volatile global prices.
48% : A concentrator in Ndola, owned by processing firm Jubilee Metals Group, is ramping up and recovering copper from the region's old dumps, which has a lighter carbon footprint than mining.
44% : "Those were not good deals," says Twivwe Siwale, a former Zambian tax official who is now head of tax for growth at the International Growth Centre think-tank.
41% : If Zambian copper is to make a much larger contribution to the world's shift to clean energy, potential investors must first confront what has been a very dirty business.
40% : Last time we complained to Mopani, they said they pay taxes to the government, so it is the government's responsibility to solve the problem," Waya says, gesturing at the growing cracks in the walls of her house.

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