Towards responsible mining and processing of energy-transition metails in Europe: a mere pipedream or a realistic opportunity?
Martin's Patershof Mechelen, BelgiumCritical Raw Materials are essential in the modern-day economy, for renewable energy technologies, electric vehicles, long-duration energy storage (LDES) and digitalisation, allowing our society to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1 The European Commission’s (EC) Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) sets mining, processing and recycling benchmarks to reduce Europe’s dependency on just a few third […]