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White & Case Global Head of Mining & Metals, Rebecca Campbell, and Gabrielle Goodrow, senior associate in White & Case’s Project Development & Finance Group, spoke with IJGlobal as part of its Energy Transition Report 2025, discussing how critical minerals have become a central geopolitical battleground, with countries taking a more active role in the evolution of global supply chains amid ongoing structural and practical challenges.

Many nations today agree they need to take the reins of production, processing and import of these minerals. The US, in particular, has produced a raft of domestic policies that are impacting markets worldwide. Goodrow notes “a growing share of global flows is being directed toward the United States, which is working to position itself as a key anchor market for critical minerals.”

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Pemberton Asset Management on a €150 million private debt financing related to ICG’s investment in Excellera Advisory Group (Excellera), a leading provider of corporate communications and public affairs services in Italy, to support its future growth.

The investment will support Excellera in leveraging its established presence and scale as market leader, positioning it for further consolidation in Italy and international expansion in key geographical hubs.

The White & Case team in Milan which advised on the transaction included partners Stefano Bellani and Luca Maffia and associates Nicola Tosin and Gabriele Costanzo Piccinino.

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Expanding access to better data

Together with collaborators including lab member Wesley Ingwersen, who created the U.S. EPA model and led work on it until the agency shuttered it in August 2025, Davis is now working to make a global model freely available and easy to use through an effort called Cornerstone. “The reason companies haven’t been using the global models is they’re not as easy to come by. They are a lot more involved to build, and there hasn’t been an easy, open-source version,” said Davis. 

The group is integrating the former government database with the multi-region model analyzed in the study, which was developed by a private company called Watershed, where Davis chairs the science advisory board and previously served as head of climate science. 

“When available tools neglect international sources of emissions, companies’ sustainability decisions suffer,” said study co-author Michael Steffen, Watershed’s head of climate analytics.

The team aims to release the merged model in late 2026, with ambitions to account for emissions from land-use changes and deforestation in later research and iterations. “If you’re getting soybeans from Iowa, it has a very different footprint than if you’ve cut down some of the Amazon to grow those soybeans,” Davis said.

Scientists from the World Wildlife Fund and CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, co-authored the paper. “These are NGOs that are really interested in minimizing greenwashing and making sure that corporate climate actions are as beneficial as possible,” Davis said. 

Some critics question whether models based on sector-wide averages and spending like those analyzed in the study are the right approach to estimate upstream emissions at all – regardless of whether global or single-region models are used. “I think we could all agree that if you had perfect data about exactly what was going on in your supply chain, you could make even more accurate estimates and leapfrog all of these models,” Davis said. “The reality is, though, that it’s still really difficult to get a lot of that data, and there’s little prospect of getting it without much more stringent regulations than are even on the table.” As a result, he said, there’s value in improving the modeling approach even if the long-term strategy is to get better data. 

Corporations seeking to track and reduce emissions in their supply chains have the potential to make a meaningful difference in global carbon pollution, Davis said. “They are making sizable investments. If those dollars are directed to the right places, it could meaningfully reduce global emissions,” he said.

How Europe monitors pesticide residues in food

133,000 samples collected in 2023

Crops that have been treated with pesticides may contain residues. To ensure that pesticides are used correctly and their residues do not pose a risk to consumers, legal limits are set in EU legislation,

How do we know that levels of residues found in food are safe?

Food inspection services in the EU, Iceland and Norway have monitoring programmes in place to check that food complies with legal limits. 

98% of samples in 2023 were free of residues or contained residues that were within legal limits.

ANALYSIS

Official laboratories test the food samples for the presence of more than 740 pesticides.  

DATA

Around 26 million individual test results for pesticide residues
are reported to EFSA per year and summarised in an annual report.

EU DECISION-MAKERS  

EU decision-makers use EFSA’s conclusions and recommendations to
strengthen future monitoring programmes. 

EFSA is the keystone of EU risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. In close collaboration with national authorities in open consultation with its stakeholders, EFSA provides independent scientific advice and clear communication on existing and emerging risks.

© European Food Safety Authority, 2025. Reproduction is authorised, except for commercial purposes, provided that the source is acknowledged.

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Catalogue Number(*): TM-01-25-015-EN-N | ISBN 978-92-9499-752-4 | DOI: 10.2805/0181725