A review and prospects of the supply security of strategic key minerals

WU, Qiaosheng; Zhou, Na; CHENG, Jinhua

doi:10.18402/resci.2020.08.01

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“…In particular, climate change has caused a new global energy governance pattern, and the supply chain security of minerals needed for the low-carbon energy transition has become a strategic issue (Wang et al, 2012;Chao et al, 2016;. Under this circumstance, the secure supply of critical metals will become a decisive factor affecting the future development of new energy technologies (Wu et al, 2020).…”

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Critical Energy Minerals: A Material Enabler for Carbon Neutrality

2024

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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Critical Energy Minerals: A Material Enabler for Carbon Neutrality

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“…Meanwhile, with the explosive growth of new energy facilities, relevant key mineral markets may be affected by price fluctuations or even risk supply interruptions, which will have a far-reaching impact on global energy geopolitics. On the background of global energy transition, new energy technologies and critical materials are increasingly becoming the focus of international energy geo-economic competition, affecting the trend of global energy geopolitical pattern (Baldi et al, 2014;Pavel et al, 2017;Bazilian, 2018;Wu et al, 2020;Blondeel et al, 2021). On the one hand, the global low-carbon energy transition drives a rapid increase of the demand for critical materials, but the relatively limited resource reserves and production capacity will lead to the risk of supply shortages and intensify the disparity between supply and demand (Dong et al, 2020).…”

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Geopolitics of the energy transition

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Geopolitics of energy transition has increasingly become the frontier and hot research area of world energy geography and global political science. Different historical periods are characterised by obvious differences in energy connotations, attributes, and geopolitical characteristics. In the new energy era, energy geopolitics becomes more diversified, complex, and comprehensive. In this paper, we compare the geopolitical characteristics of energy in the fossil fuel and renewable energy periods, and provide an overview of current study trends in new energy geopolitics. Recent research shows that the global energy transition will intensify the reconstruction of geopolitical patterns, change the relationship between geopolitical security and conflict dominated by traditional energy security, alter the role of different countries in global energy geopolitical games, reshape national energy relationships formed in the traditional oil and gas era. In addition, geopolitics will be affected by new energy technologies, availability of key rare materials, and energy cybersecurity measures. Despite considerable attention to this research topic, the likely geopolitical impact of energy transition remains uncertain, and there is still room for the development and improvement of the theoretical framework, technical methods, and research perspective. Looking forward to the future, the research into geopolitics of energy transition urgently needs to strengthen its theoretical basis and rely on the scientific and quantitative methods. The practical conclusions of the research into geopolitics of energy transition should strengthen major national energy security decisions, explore the geographical effect of energy transition, and determine the impact of energy transition on energy security. Research into geopolitics of energy transition should be carried out taking into account international academic frontiers such as climate change, "carbon peak" and "carbon neutral" goals, and global energy governance, to enrich the research perspective of world energy geography.

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“…At the same time, the research of strategic and critical minerals has become a hot topic in China. From the perspectives of supply safety and global governance, Wu et al (2020) and Zhou et al (2020) defined the strategic and critical minerals and elaborated the implications of their supply safety. After their investigations into the impact of price fluctuation of strategic metal minerals on the output of metal industry, Zhong and Song, 2020 discovered the remarkably negative impact of supply shock on the upper and middle chains of strategic minerals industry during the Sino-US trade war.…”

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The product space and evolution of international competitiveness—evidence from China’s strategic and critical mineral articles

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Clarifying the evolution of international competitiveness for strategic and critical mineral articles is of great significance for promoting new energy development and achieving carbon neutrality in China. This study, therefore, calculates the series of indicators based on product space theory, for instance, international import & export shares, revealed comparative advantage (RCA) and product density, to analyze the competitiveness evolution. Results show that: the international competitiveness of China’s strategic and critical mineral articles demonstrated a declining tendency, and the rising percentage of imports was much larger than the decreasing export percentage. The evolution of the international competitiveness of 11 strategic and critical minerals is different. Among them, the international competitiveness of two articles is very strong, that of four articles is relatively weak, and that of three products is decreasing trend. From the perspectives of industrial sectors and trade, we analyze the underlying reasons for the competitiveness evolution of 11 strategic and critical mineral articles in detail and discuss the industry transformation and upgrade feasibility for strategic and critical mineral articles. Our work aims to provide strong support for the upgrading and high-quality development of the strategic and critical mineral products industry by providing corresponding policy suggestions.

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A review and prospects of the supply security of strategic key minerals

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Critical Energy Minerals: A Material Enabler for Carbon Neutrality

Critical Energy Minerals: A Material Enabler for Carbon Neutrality

Geopolitics of the energy transition

The product space and evolution of international competitiveness—evidence from China’s strategic and critical mineral articles

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