One of the weak spots in what is being framed as the ‘green transition’ is the access to raw materials needed to transform the power-base of industrial economies from fossil fuels to ‘clean’ technologies.
This is especially true for the European Union which is, for most of these metals, between 75 and 100 per cent dependent on imports, most of which come from China or countries in the Global South.1 (See page 34)
This is the impetus
