What Makes Minerals and Metals "Critical"?
A practical guide for governments on building resilient supply chains
Exploring how governments define what should be considered as "strategic" or "critical" based on a series of objective criteria.
This practical guide provides a series of questions that may guide governments when considering the design of strategic policies and roadmaps with respect to the minerals and metals they produce and/or need for resilient industrial supply chains.
This publication is designed to support governments in defining what should be considered as “strategic” or “critical” based on a series of objective criteria, such as their mineral endowments, their national development objectives and priorities, their decarbonization and industrialization pathways, and their importance (and role) in global supply chains.
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