# Securing Minerals for Energy and Technologies

Advancing collaboration to strengthen resilience, promote responsible development and mobilize finance for global mineral value chains.

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## We provide a global multistakeholder platform to strengthen resilience, promote responsible development and mobilize finance for global mineral value chains.

Several minerals face significant supply-demand imbalances by 2030. These minerals have risen to the top of policy agendas for energy and economic security.The Securing Minerals for Energy and Technologies (SMET) initiative is a multistakeholder platform bringing together the worlds leading public and private leaders to strengthen resilience, promote responsible development and mobilize finance for global mineral value chains.


**150+** Businesses engaged

**50+** CEOs participating

**100+** Global community members

**25+** Governments convened


## Making Critical Minerals Bankable: Policy Tools to Unlock Investment

Demand is rising, yet minerals investment and capacity remain uneven. The report, in collaboration with Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA (CGEP), provides a practical framework and sets out a forward-looking pathway to move projects from risk to resilience and ensure supply can keep pace with the technologies shaping the future.

[Read the report](https://www.weforum.org/publications/making-critical-minerals-bankable-policy-tools-to-unlock-investment/ )


## Our strategic approach to Securing Minerals for Energy and Technologies

From trade dialogue to regional collaboration, the initiative connects leaders across four interconnected areas to strengthen resilience, diversify supply chains, and turn shared understanding into collective action.

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### Support investment mobilization

Identify investment needs across mineral value chains and mobilize public and private capital through de-risking mechanisms and innovative financing solutions.


### Surface regional priorities

Elevate regional opportunities, promote economic value creation beyond extraction, and align investment and policy strategies to region-specific contexts and challenges.


### Facilitate trade dialogue

Enable high-level dialogue between global leaders to reduce concentration risks, ease policy barriers, and promote transparency across global mineral supply chains and produce insights to improve minerals trade.


### Accelerate innovation and responsible sourcing

Advance technological innovation in extraction, processing, and recycling alongside responsible sourcing practices to future-proof mineral value chains.


### Engage with the initiative

Collaborate with a global network of leaders across sectors and regions to contribute expertise and collaborate on strengthening mineral supply chains for energy systems and technologies.

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