Minerals are essential components for many clean energy technologies, from wind turbines, electrical grids to electric vehicles. Ensuring that these and other technologies can continue to be provided with sufficient mineral resources to support the acceleration of the energy transition is therefore a significant challenge that needs to be faced collectively.
The Securing Minerals for the Energy Transition initiative focuses on facilitating policy dialogue to create an enabling environment and reduce roadblocks, mobilizing investment to address supply-demand gaps in the critical minerals value chain, and accelerating innovation by promoting new technologies and scalable solutions through private sector participation.
Our strategic approach focuses on enabling policy dialogue, mobilizing investments, accelerating innovation, and increasing circularity to meet the demands of a sustainable energy future.
Enable dialogues between public and private sectors to inform policy making, signpost policies to business and overcome regulatory obstacles and trade barriers to secure minerals for energy transition.
Understand investment needs across critical minerals value chain and mobilize investment to bridge the supply-demand gap.
Spur innovation via private sector participation through identification of new technologies and systematic innovations along with pathways to scale.
Identify and support the necessary conditions to create and scale secondary markets for minerals to maximize their value after extraction, including through reusing and recycling.
Our flagship report explores various approaches for unlocking critical minerals supply. It identifies barriers to investment and innovation in critical minerals and associated solutions for addressing them. It also highlights the need for global multistakeholder collaboration across the value chain and wider ecosystem to lower barriers and enable solutions.