Statista trend report on the global mining industry's environmental impact and the energy transition
The world is at a crossroads with preventing climate change from becoming irreversible and devastating to all living things. In order to limit global warming to 1.5 to two degrees Celsius or below, a major, worldwide shift toward using primarily clean energy sources will be necessary. The clean energy transition, or simply, the energy transition, is a pathway for the global energy sector to transform from being fossil fuels-based to being zero-carbon by 2050.
Minerals already play an important role in the production of a variety of low-carbon energy sources. This is set to ramp up dramatically over the next few decades as clean energy sources require a variety of minerals throughout their life cycles.
This report examines the energy transition's reliance on minerals, how the value chain of the energy transition’s mineral requirements measure up in terms of environmental and social sustainability, and how that compares to the world’s current fossil fuels-based energy paradigm.
The clean energy transition
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