The Mining and Metals industry plays a crucial role in many socioeconomic systems, supplying essential materials for various economic activities like energy, transportation, and construction. Its transformation has wide-reaching effects on essential industries.  

By gathering top executives from the industry, the community is the hub for transformational industry dialogue among peers, facilitating the exchange of ideas, best practices, and cutting-edge insights.  

Members of the Mining and Metals Industry community collaborate proactively to shape the future of the sector, foster innovation and new business practices, and inform new policymaking.

The industry community has defined the following strategic priorities for the year ahead: 

• Increasing supply of minerals for the energy transition 


• Decarbonizing the industry  

Activities

·       Securing Minerals for the Energy Transition seeks to identify and characterize the risks derived from the increasing supply-demand gap in minerals for the energy transition, and to identify strategies for their collective management. A longer-term objective of the initiative is to design and launch a global multistakeholder platform for collaborative risk management and coordinated action. These objectives will be met by building on strategic collaborations with leading international organizations, leveraging knowledge and information already available, and involving a wide range of stakeholders along the supply chain, in all phases and activities.

·       Clean power and electrification program addresses the roadblocks and accelerates the enablers needed for the massive scale-up of clean power infrastructure on the energy supply side and also for the demand-side transformation - across transportation, industry, and buildings. In January 2023, the program launched accelerators on (1) clean power and delivery and (2) electrification and efficiency to meet this challenge. 

·       The Sector Transition to Nature Positive aims at identifying and making a business case for sector specific actions to transition to nature positive. Mining and metal sector will play an increasingly important role in combating climate change. Accelerating clean energy transition at speed and scale while creating positive impacts on nature and biodiversity is essential to a nature-positive, net-zero and equitable future. The project will deep dive in Mining and Metals as a phase II focus likely starting September 2023. 

Contact: Tatiana Aguilar, Mining and Metals Industry Manager, tatiana.aguilar@weforum.org