News
27th of February 2017
STRADE publishes policy brief on EU raw material import flows
STRADE's policy brief 02/2017 analyses the European import flows of metals in various processing states and the connections with specific environmental and socio-economic issues in resource-rich countries.
27th of February 2017
STRADE publishes policy brief on minerals and metals from non-EU countries
STRADE's policy brief 01/2017 examines the role and responsibility of European institutions to positively influence the environmental and social conditions of raw materials production in non-EU countries.
30th of December 2016
STRADE publishes policy brief on voluntary initiatives, principles and criteria on socio-economic sustainability in mining
STRADE's policy brief 09/2016 reviews socio-economic principles and criteria in voluntary and legally non-binding initiatives with particular relevance for the ore mining sector.
Two new presentations of the Oeko-Institut about Rare Earth Elements issue now available
22nd of November 2011 by Stefanie Degreif
Our colleague Dr. Matthias Buchert talked at the conference “Wind Turbine Supply Chain & Logistics” in August about the interlinkage between wind energy growth and rare earths demand. You can download the highly interesting facts and scenarios of future resource requirements in the presentation “Rare Earths - a Bottleneck for future Wind Turbine Technologies?” here: http://www.resourcefever.org/publications/presentations/Wind%20Supply%20Chain%202011%20-%20Buchert_final.pdf
Further presentation “Application of rare earths in consumer electronics and challenges for recycling” was held by our colleague Ran Liu on the International Conference on Consumer Electronics in September which focused on rare earths relevance for consumer applications. Please find the very interesting presentation here: http://www.resourcefever.org/publications/presentations/ICCE_Ran%20Liu_08_September%202011.pdf