What does this have to do with mining?
It’s simple. The world must rapidly build clean energy infrastructure to confront climate change. This means building more wind turbines and solar farms and improving our electricity grids. It means transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs) and building batteries and charging infrastructure to support them.
All of these clean technologies require enormous amounts of minerals and metals.
Without these materials, decarbonizing the global economy and achieving net zero is impossible. Full stop.
Nearly 200 countries signed the Paris Accord and pledged to reduce their emissions, but policy makers are only beginning to focus their attention on whether we will have enough minerals and metals to meet net zero by 2050.
Establishing a global consensus on the emissions targets necessary to limit warming to 1.5 C is an important first step. What we need now is global action to ensure there is…
