Digging for Solutions: Securing Minerals for Green Energy

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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"Off Message" presents Episode 7 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations": What will it take to secure access to the critical minerals we need for the future — and can we solve one environmental challenge without creating a new one? Hosts Luiza Savage and Ryan Heath talk to political leaders around the world about what they are doing to shore up access to critical minerals. Luiza Savage is the host of "Global Translations".Ryan Heath is a host of "Global Translations". Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO Audio. Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO Audio. Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesAmbassador Kirsten Hillman is Canada’s Ambassador to the United StatesEU Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional RelationsRead Luiza Savage's article on how US, Canada & Europe's policymakers are scrambling to secure critical minerals to develop clean energy:https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/renewables-mining-clean-energy-443844And check out the other POLITICO newsletters: Global Translations: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-translationsMorning Energy: https://www.politico.com/morningenergy/The Long Game: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-long-gameChina Watcher: politico.com/chinaMorning Tech: https://www.politico.com/morningtech/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The fight against climate change has some powerful allies. We're seeing some of the world's largest
0:05.7	financial players starting to integrate climate risk into how they evaluate their portfolios.
0:11.7	Stay tuned for a special branded episode of Global Translations, presented by City, right here on
0:18.3	December 16th. Ryan, what are you doing for fun in the pandemic?
0:23.3	I watch a lot of TV. Have you got any recommendations?
0:26.4	I've been doing a lot of power watching with my kids of Deep Space Nine.
0:35.4	And what's that?
0:42.0	Yeah. And what's that? So you don't even know.
0:43.4	It's a spin-off of Star Trek.
0:48.2	Okay, nerd.
0:49.4	Well, I guess I'm doing the next episode while you buy tickets for the Deep Space Nine convention.
0:59.0	Okay. guess I'm doing the next episode while you buy tickets for the Deep Space Nine convention. But it's funny, the show is made in the 90s, and they have this concept of the future, and it's all about mining asteroids and moons and other planets for all these crazy minerals like dilithium and trilithium and prometium quartz crystals.
1:13.6	But it's actually not that far-fetched.
1:15.6	I mean, we're hearing people talking about mining asteroid and mining the deep sea bed.
1:20.6	Mining is important for the future and we need to figure out how to do it in a way that isn't disastrous for the planet,
1:30.8	clearly. Yeah, but chop, chop, we need some electric cars now and we can't wait 20 years to get
1:35.5	them. Well, that's the whole tension, right? Like, we need this green energy transition,
1:40.0	but we need to mine to get there. It's a really interesting puzzle for countries to solve.
1:46.4	Okay, that's great.
1:47.7	I'm glad that's the way we spend our nights now,
1:50.4	but I'm in the mood for some solutions that we can use here and now.
1:53.8	And that's what the episode is.
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