Access to resources is one of the most strategic security questions surrounding the delivery of the European Green Deal. The Green Deal aims to make Europe the first carbon neutral continent by 2050. Furthermore, by summer 2020 the Commission plans to raise the EU’s greenhouse gas emission reductions target for 2030 to at least 50 % and towards 55 % of 1990 levels. The sustainable utilisation of raw materials, including metals and industrial minerals, and particularly critical raw materials (CRM) such as rare earths, is one of the main prerequisites to making this switch happen. This is due to their vital role in crucial industrial value chains, especially in the energy, mobility and defence sectors, and the production of renewable energy technologies, electric vehicles, and mobile phones among others. This CORDIS Results Pack highlights six projects funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, that are working on exploration technologies for a sustainable supply of raw materials.

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