The Carbon Emissions of Producing Energy Transition Metals: Charted

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Metals are needed to build the clean energy transition’s infrastructure, but how much carbon does mining and refining these metals emit?

NOTE: Raw data isn’t available as it uses already visualized information from the source report by KU Leuven linked here.

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The Carbon Emissions of Producing Energy Transition Metals: Charted

Metals are needed to build the clean energy transition’s infrastructure, but how much carbon does mining and refining these metals emit?


First published: October 10, 2022 (link)

Source files included: .ai, .eps, .pdf

Data source: MineSpans, Eckelmann, Li and Co LCA analysis

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