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'Diversification is the cornerstone of energy security': Can anyone catch China in the global critical minerals race?

Michael Holder

21 May 2025 • 9 min read

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International Energy Agency warns the global supply of key energy-related metals and minerals is becoming more, not less, concentrated

The International Energy Agency's (IEA) frequent treatise on global clean energy trends always contain an increasingly unavoidable conclusion: China has stolen a march on everyone else in the clean technology...

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