Pools of brine containing lithium carbonate and mounds of salt bi-product stretch through a lithium mine in the Atacama Desert in Salar de Atacama, Chile on Aug. 24, 2022. Global demand is expected to keep rising for lithium carbonate, a main component in the manufacture of renewable energy batteries and EV batteries. John Moore / Getty Images
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The United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Resources Outlook — the flagship report of the UN’s International Resource Panel, due to be published later this month — highlights how the consumption of natural resources globally is set to rise by 60 percent by 2060.
Raw materials consumption worldwide is already…
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