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Episode: OIES Podcast – Diversification and de-risking in new energy supply chains: Latin America's Positioning in Critical Minerals Geopolitics
Description: In this podcast Anders Hove talks to Tom Moerenhout and Victoria Barreto Vieira do Prado about how Latin American countries are navigating the geopolitics of clean energy supply chains. Moerenhout and Vieira do Prado, scholars at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), discuss the challenges Latin American countries face in moving upstream from minerals extraction to higher-value parts of the supply chain. While most countries with critical minerals are seeking to localize processing or battery materials production, this is likely to prove difficult in practice. In particular, minerals processing and cathode or anode production are...