The energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables is underway, with electric vehicles at the heart of it.
Electric vehicles have the potential to improve air quality and help decarbonise our economies, slowing the progress of climate change - but recycling alone won’t provide enough raw materials to drive the energy transition. We’ll still need mining for many years to come, with green technology being driven by modern, responsible mining.
A World Bank report produced in 2020 - Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition - outlined the raw material requirements for the energy transition. This includes a potential 500% increase in production of graphite, lithium and cobalt to meet the requirements of clean energy technologies alone, most of which is reliant on primary production through mining.
James Davey
Resource Geology Consultant
James specialises in 3D geological modelling, resource estimation and the geochemistry of hydrothermal ore-forming systems.
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