In the previous two sessions we delved into topics such as green mining, Critical Raw Materials and the geopolitics of their future supply.

Now we’re moving the conversation on to our global green energy transition – that’s hurtling ahead at such velocity, as countries strive to extrapolate themselves from their carbon dependency.

In this episode of Material:Matters, Tessa Parry-Wingfield chats to Arash Duero – a Principal at Bingmann Pflüger International – global strategic advisers – who has specialisms in the political and economic dimensions of natural resources.

Facts and sources:

Facts on the physical limits of wind and solar energy are an extract from Mark Mills’ Manhattan Institute report “The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking”, published in March 2019.

Mark Mills is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Link: https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/R-0319-MM.pdf

Helpful data on the future demand for critical raw materials can be found here: “The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions”, International Energy Agency (IEA), May 2021.
Link: https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions