From Resources to Resilience: Unpacking the Role of Raw Materials for Security, Sustainability and Prosperity
Wednesday, 17 April | 16:30 – 18:00 CET | ACE, Av. d’Auderghem 22, 1040 Bruxelles
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This event is facilitated by members of Euromines Sustainable Mining Initiative
The Background
Mineral raw materials are the backbone of a sustainable economy. From Clean Tech to Industrial Strategy, from automotive and green energy to the defence sector – stable and sustainable access to raw materials for EU society is of paramount importance. Our security, human and societal development, rely on access to a wide range of minerals and metals.
Within just a few decades EU and US have lost their global dominance in raw materials sourcing. Today, neither EU nor US can rely on domestic extraction or processing to fill the demand of its manufacturing. Even worse, almost as if suddenly, EU must find a way to challenge a dominant and political leadership of China in securing long-term partnership agreements with third countries. Luckily, the EU is awakening to this new reality – the recently adopted Critical Raw Materials Act, with its 10 percent of the EU’s annual consumption from EU extraction target, sets a trajectory to catch up with demand and achieve resilience.
