To mitigate future shocks, a broad and bold strategy is needed that brings together investment, innovation, recycling, and rigorous sustainability standards. This is at the heart of the Critical Raw Materials Act that will be presented in March. Greater investment to bring new mines and ref...
On the minerals front, Europe’s critical mineral strategy is significant, but in practice, access to scarce resources will be challenging in a world divvied up by US and China-led alliances. Local industry and the green transition need not be oxymoronic, if Europeans adopted an EU-wide ...
A“resource diplomacy” strategy was also put forward in the report, aimed at securing the EU’s CRM supply. It addresses China’s advantage in speed and scale for partnerships; to counter this, it proposes the creation of a “G7+ Critical Raw Materials Club”. This initiative would bring ...
$1.542 CAD billion for accelerating project development $1.5 CAD billion for infrastructure development for critical mineral supply chains, with a focus on priority deposits $70 CAD million for global partnerships to promote Canadian mining leadership What impact will the Critical Minerals Strategy have?
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has revived a claim by youth activists who argue that the greenhouse gas emissions target set under Ontario’s Cap... Read more It’s debatable: unresolved corporate governance issues impacting 2025 Debates on current corporate governance topics will shape the practi...
For our Hydrogen Strategy to succeed, we would need a reliable supply of platinum group metals for fuel cells and electrolysers. Critical Raw Materials are also essential for shaping Europe's digital future. According to the foresight study, 120 times the current EU demand of the rare earth ...
Any credible long-term industrial strategy also needs to consider the availability of skilled labour, the more so against the backdrop of a rapidly ageing population and severe labour shortages across many sectors. The EC draft therefore rightly focuses on skills. However, beyond...
Sufficient supplies of critical raw materials (CRMs) for rapidly developing technologies, e.g., Li-ion batteries, wind turbines, photovoltaics, digitization, etc., have become one of the main economic challenges for the EU. Due to growing import dependency and associated risk of supply disruptions...
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Therefore, the EU aims to identify strategic projects in third countries and support them financially via the €300 billion Global Gateway Strategy. The law also includes a “China clause,” which sets a benchmark to not be dependent on one single third country for more than 65% of imports ...