As a think tank that focuses on the financial sector, we have hosted two Masterclass webinars on critical raw materials, because we recognised that South Africa was in a unique position to capitalise not only on the coal economy of the past, but to extract additional value from the current energy consumption of coal.
Critical raw materials (CRMs), also known as critical minerals, have been popularised by the geopolitics of the day. CRMs are integral to the countermeasures for environmental challenges of a rising global temperature, which have been embedded in societies consciousness. CRMs contribute as raw materials for energy battery storage, wind turbines, photovoltaics, robotics and much more.