Aligning Support for Responsible Mineral Supply Chains for a Resilient Clean Energy Future

Energy transitions are increasing the demand for responsibly sourced critical minerals to ensure secure and resilient energy systems. Diversifying and strengthening critical minerals supply chains, including through value addition in developing countries across Asia-Pacific, needs to be coupled with innovative technologies and solutions that ensure robust environmental and social safeguards for refining, processing, recycling and secondary extraction. Many resource rich developing countries face significant challenges, such as limited financial and technical support, insufficient enabling environments to facilitate minerals value addition, which impacts their ability to fully benefit from energy transitions and to facilitate sustainable and inclusive industrial and economic development.