Adnan Mazarei

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Adnan Mazarei is a nonresident fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously he was a deputy director at the International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and Central Asia Department.

Adnan Mazarei

Sep 26 2022

Who controls the world’s minerals needed for green energy?

Illuminem Voices

Battery Metals · Energy

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not simply exposed Europe's dangerous dependence on Russian oil and gas. The war has also underscored a less appreciated but equally worrisome vulnerability in the industrial West to threats that could hamper access to minerals vital to the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.