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May 25, 2024

Research reveals scale of the EU’s dependency on imports for critical minerals needed for green transition

Posted by in categories: climatology, materials

The climate transition is a materials transition. Decades of international diplomacy around oil, gas and pipelines are now giving way to conversations around the supply of critical raw materials. And not before time: to meet the EU’s energy and climate targets, we need to build the right technologies, in the right quantities, at the right speed. The problem is that many of these technologies are built with materials imported from just a handful of countries.

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