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Document Name Minerals for Climate Action - The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition
Document Date 5/7/2020 10:44:54 AM
Authors Nguyen,Helen Ba Thanh
Web Publish Date 5/12/2020 11:12:00 AM
Document Type Correspondence
Project ID P166278
Project Name Mining for Climate Change: Supporting a Developing Country Perspective
Language English
Country World
Document Description A new World Bank Group report finds that the production of minerals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, will increase by nearly 500% by 2050, to meet the growing demand for clean energy technologies. It estimates that over 3 billion tons of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as well as energy storage, at scale in order to achieve a below 2°C future.

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