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Critical Minerals

Making Critical Minerals Bankable: Policy Tools to Unlock Investment

White Papers with Kevin Brunelli, Gautam Jain & Tom Moerenhout • May 04, 2026

This paper proposes a de-risking framework of policy interventions to provide the risk allocation, revenue certainty and delivery confidence required by mainstream private finance.

Critical minerals sit at the intersection of energy technology, industrial competitiveness and economic resilience. Demand is rising this decade, yet investment and capacity remain uneven. The constraint is not geological availability or capital but bankability. This paper proposes a de-risking framework of policy interventions to provide the risk allocation, revenue certainty and delivery confidence required by mainstream private finance.

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Improving Critical Mineral Mining Negotiations in Chile: Toward Clearer and More Robust Frameworks for Benefit Sharing with Local Communities

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) Business School, in collaboration with CGEP, organized two closed-door roundtables in the summer of 2025 to discuss local community engagement in the context of lithium and copper extraction within the global energy transition.

Task Force Reports by Juan Pablo Escudero, Diego Rivera Rivota, Juan Carlos Jobet + 1 more • March 30, 2026
Improving Critical Mineral Mining Negotiations in Chile: Toward Clearer and More Robust Frameworks for Benefit Sharing with Local Communities
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Critical Minerals

Making Critical Minerals Bankable: Policy Tools to Unlock Investment

White Papers with Kevin Brunelli, Gautam Jain & Tom Moerenhout • May 04, 2026