Dr. Anderhuber will speak during a special session on 10 September exploring the CRMA’s impact on Europe’s raw materials strategy, with insights from both European and Italian case studies. Experts will discuss how the Act reshapes geoscientific priorities, exploration, and policy, while also examining Italy’s pioneering role.

Join 450+ senior leaders at the FT Metals & Mining Summit — the agenda-setting event kicking off LME Week. Against a backdrop of global trade wars, defence-driven demand, and deepening investor scrutiny, this year’s summit dives into the real-world challenges and strategic shifts shaping the mining sector.

In her session, Anna will explore how digital innovation is reshaping the mining industry, aligning with critical European policy frameworks such as the EU Green Deal and the Critical Raw Materials Act. She will discuss how Mining 4.0 technologies are enhancing resource extraction and driving environmental sustainability, with real-world examples from Euromines’ own Sustainable Mining Initiative.

As Europe continues to advance its climate and industrial policy agenda, the role of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) and sustainable resource extraction is more vital than ever. Euromines will actively contribute to high-level discussions on Critical Raw Materials and climate finance, underscoring the strategic importance of the European mining sector in achieving climate goals, supply chain resilience, and technological sovereignty.

Our participation will focus on how sustainable mining practices support the EU’s Green Deal objectives, reduce strategic dependencies, and drive industrial competitiveness in the clean energy transition. We will also highlight the need for coherent policy frameworks and financial mechanisms that incentivize innovation, investment, and long-term sustainability in the raw materials value chain.

Join us and other key stakeholders from across industry, finance, and policy as we work together to align climate ambition with industrial capability.

The documentary offers a compelling exploration of lithium’s crucial role in Europe’s ambition to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent. At the same time, it seeks to de-escalate the increasingly polarised debate surrounding critical raw materials in Europe. Through a combination of investigative depth and bridge-building storytelling, director-author Peter Tom Jones invites both European civil society and the mining & metals sector to confront – and collaboratively resolve – the contradictions at the heart of Europe’s green tech ambitions. He calls for breaking free from the “lithium trenches” and proposes a novel approach to public engagement. The film argues that Europe cannot achieve climate neutrality without lithium, yet must do so while respecting local environmental, social and cultural values.

The film is funded by the European Commission through the EU Horizon Europe projects LITHOS and EXCEED. It includes coverage of three case studies (Barroso, Beauvoir, Kaustinen), as well as Metso’s LiOH refining process (LITHOS partner) and Umicore’s battery recycling process.

Europe’s Lithium Paradox has raised the debate on lithium by addressing the issue with striking insight and depth, supported by panel discussions and targeted press outreach. The documentary was quickly met with acclaim, winning two awards shortly after its release: Best Environment and Climate Film at the Berlin Kiez Film Festival and an Honourable Mention from the My Name is Climate Film Festival, as well as a selection as a Finalist by the British Columbia Environmental Film Festival Society and a selection by the world’s biggest sustainability film festival: 2025 Big Syn International Film Festival London! This festival is organised by the Big Syn Institute, a part of the Centre for Big Synergy, which is a CSO of the UN. The festival educates and inspires millions to act on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.