African Critical Minerals: The Key to a Green Energy Future

Africa is well-positioned to leverage its immense wealth of critical minerals to participate in the global shift towards renewables while promoting socioeconomic growth, job creation, and local content development   JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 8, 2023/ — Critical minerals are essential for the development of renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines, green hydrogen, electric vehicles (EVs), and battery storage, and Africa’s mineral wealth has the potential to benefit not only the continent, but to provide a foundation for the global energy transition (https://apo-opa.info/42cMbC9). Accounting for more than 85%…