“Resources for the Energiewende”
acatech / Leopoldina / Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
The planet holds enough natural resources needed for the global energy transition, write research institutes acatech, Leopoldina and Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities in a report. But the uneven distribution creates the need for fair international agreements to support private trade, as well as enhanced metal recycling, the report states. With a successful energy transition, the need for coal, oil and natural gas decreases - but imports of various metals to Germany become more important, write the institutes in a press release. The country could also extract some metals within its borders, such as indium and germanium, cobalt, copper and nickel.
Find the press release in German here and the report in German here.
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