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📢 Raw Materials Week 2024: Leading the Way for Europe's Future Last week, we were turning our attention to Brussels, where the Raw Materials Week 2024 went under way (9–13 December). This important event gathered over 1,000 leaders from industry, research, and policy. Organized by the European Commission, Raw Materials Week is the largest annual event for raw materials, focusing on innovation, sustainability, and strategic partnerships. 🤝 For Eurobattery Minerals, events like this reinforce our commitment to Europe's self-sufficiency in responsibly mined battery minerals. Discussions on derisking projects, circular economy solutions, and sustainable policies align perfectly with our vision of a cleaner, greener future. Responsibly mined battery minerals – from Europe for Europe. 🌱 More information about Raw Materials Week 2024 ➡️https://lnkd.in/dkEpWXUg #RawMaterialsWeek2024 #ResponsibleMining #EurobatteryMinerals #RMW2024 Roberto Garcia Martinez Ilari Kinnunen FinnCobalt Oy Kalle Penttilä European Commission

The Raw Materials Week 2024 perfectly aligns with our mission at Eurobattery Minerals AB to make Europe self-sufficient in responsibly mined battery minerals. Through innovation, collaboration, and sustainability-focused strategies, we aim to power a cleaner, greener world. As the global demand for electric vehicles and sustainable energy solutions grows, securing ethically sourced nickel, cobalt, and copper is essential. The EU wants to set the global standard for responsible sourcing and also show that Europe means business when it comes to raw materials. The CRMA came into force in May this year, now Europe needs to move from words to action. I personally see two issues: financing and the permitting process. To reach our goals in Europe, the mining companies need access to financing, and much simpler and shorter procedures to obtain permits. And we heard this same argument from many of the speakers at Raw Materials Week this year. CRMA is good but the proof of the pudding is in the eating… #RawMaterialsWeek2024 #EurobatteryMinerals #ResponsibleMining FinnCobalt Oy Ilari Kinnunen Kalle Penttilä

https://lnkd.in/e4s4tPsW interesting plan that calls for action and incentives and investments also in resource rich countries. This will also be one of the key topics, more from a downstream perspective, at CSR Europe Sustainable Industry Summit on 25th June - see https://lnkd.in/eFX8P84R

The Nickel Institute is supporting the sixth edition of the Raw Materials Summit, set for May 14-16, 2024, at The Egg conference venue in Brussels. Raw Materials Summit is a Europe’s leading conference for the raw materials sector. The summit will address key issues like Europe’s energy independence, innovation, and workforce development. Save your seat at https://lnkd.in/dJhf2Ab. The #RMSummit2023 Agenda can be found here. https://lnkd.in/dFqAFAXM #EUGreenDeal #CircularEconomy #CriticalRawMaterials #RawMaterials #EUEconomy #MineralExploration #Recycling #ResponsibleSourcing #FutureMobility #CRMA

📈 The EU's consumption of #criticalminerals like #lithium, #nickel, #cobalt, and #graphite is set to soar to feed demand from energy-intensive industries like the automotive sector. ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ ⚔ That's why the EU has embarked on a Critical Minerals Crusade. Check out our new briefing paper on how the EU's trade policies are facilitating unsustainable overconsumption of the world's critical minerals, The EU's Critical Minerals Crusade: https://lnkd.in/dVmwzswN, authored by my colleagues Alejandro Gonzalez & Bart-Jaap Verbeek. 💡 And if you'll be at the #OECDrbc Minerals Forum next week, check out our session on trade policy and equitable resource use! Together with partners Publish What You Pay, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, African Resources Watch AFREWATCH, Fern NGO, and European Environmental Bureau, SOMO is organizing a roundtable to discuss the role of trade agreements and partnerships in addressing the global challenge of mineral supply diversification. The interactive session revolves around addressing inequalities in resource use and value addition and explores how to ensure: ➡ equitable benefits for resource-rich countries; ➡ reduced environmental and social burdens associated with mineral extraction, and; ➡ fairer distribution of resource wealth and value addition. ⏰ Thursday 23 May, 12.30-13.45 📌 Room CC15, OECD Conference Centre, Paris 👉 More info here: https://lnkd.in/dCGFjYHr #minerals #rawmaterials #supplychains #CRM #trade #FTA #partnership #extraction #valueaddition #inequality #industrialization #development #responsiblemining #responsiblesourcing #OECDduediligence

Critical Minerals Are in Demand. How Do We Make Sure This Trend Drives Development? The soaring demand for critical raw materials, driven by the clean energy transition, presents significant opportunities for green industrialization, especially in developing countries. Many countries are engaging in state-to-state partnerships to bridge the potential supply-demand gap in critical raw materials but these arrangements must be structured to attract investments while integrating sustainability standards, KIMBERLEY BOTWRIGHT and GUILLAUME DABRÉ write. Several thought leaders provide their perspectives on trade, critical minerals and sustainability, as a new white paper from the World Economic Forum unpacks how trade deals can ensure developing countries benefit from demand for their critical material resources.

I am delighted to share a new SOMO long read, with Alejandro Gonzalez: The EU's Critical Mineral Crusade. On how the EU is using its trade policy to secure and control access to critical mineral for its green transition, and the implications for mineral resource governance in the Global South. Particularly, it reveals how EU free trade agreements set out to facilitate trade and investment in energy and raw materials, thereby driving up resource extraction, while affecting governments' abilities to leverage their mineral wealth through downstream and value addition strategies. Read the long read here: https://lnkd.in/eCij_KDG And join our roundtable on trade policy and critical minerals during the upcoming OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains: https://lnkd.in/dCGFjYHr #Trade #CriticalMinerals #SupplyChains #RawMaterials #Nickel #Lithium #EV #Decarbonization #Overconsumption #JustTransition

What kind of mitigation do you use in mining to prevent contaminating soil and resources?

Monday 9th update; if you are interested in a coffee or chat during the European Raw Materials Week; PM or email me at bard@bergfald.no. European Raw Materials Week will gather experts and policymakers from all over in Brussels next week. I'm honoured to be invited to present recycling of Critical Raw Materials (CRM) in the Nordic Countries. CRMs are the metals needed for defence, independence, electrification and sustainability. Today, Europe is dependent on import, but new policies all over Europe are fast developing to increase mining, processing and recycling. Both mining and recycling needs to step up the game, if we are to gain independence. One million ton of CRMs are landfilled and lost in the Nordics every year, but new industries are now built to process some of it. More of that is needed and new industries generating billions from waste is possible. Looking forward to a productive week in Brussels!

Anytime and anywhere: Panel Discussion on Industry Standards for Production, Processing and Traceability of Sustainable Raw Materials Sustainable raw materials are a key ingredient in implementing the renewable energy transition, and #MiningForum has chosen “For a sustainable Future” as its motto for this year´s 17th edition. In 2023, the G7/G20 nations have concluded on harmonized ESG criteria for sustainable raw materials, and the EU Critical Raw Materials Act has translated these harmonized ESG criteria into EU Principles for Sustainable Raw Materials. The new standard development ISO PC 348 Sustainable Raw Materials is the first globally relevant standard to implement these harmonized ESG criteria. That is why defining and even more so embedding sustainable #IndustryStandards in the mining sector is of crucial importance. Having a common minimum baseline helps to gain global acceptance and maintain the trust of business partners, politics, civil society, and other vital stakeholders. In mining, globalization, geopolitical factors and at times the global supply chains complicate ensuring compliance with industry standards. Certifying compliance is an ever more difficult task. And yet, this complexity further increases the demand for certification so that customers can be sure that the raw materials were obtained in line with sustainability and industry standards. So how can certificates support, trace, and monitor the compliance with standards? What are some of the challenges enterprises face when trying to enforce industry standards along their supply chains? Dr. Michael Haschke from DMT GROUP will host the panel discussion at MiningForum, welcoming on stage renowned experts Maria Nyberg from the European Commission, Dario Liguti from United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Prof. Dr. Peter Goerke-Mallet, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Cäcilie Le Gallic from OECD - OCDE, and Julia Listringhaus, DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. Please join us for an exciting discussion and new perspectives: 🗓️ Date: 07.06.2024 ⏰ Time: 9.00h 📍 Location: Estrel Berlin, Room D For the full agenda of the two-day conference, have a look here: Agenda | MiningForum (the-miningforum.com) Tickets are available on our website: Registration | MiningForum (the-miningforum.com) See you in Berlin and Glückauf!   #MiningForum #Sustainability #Traceability #Supplychain #rawmaterials