World Bank App – Climate Mineral Explorer

From Mine to Electric Vehicle: Building Green and More Resilient Lithium Supply Chains.

Derilinx worked with the CSM team to deliver a Climate Mineral Explorer tool that provides information on the energy, emissions and freshwater consumption of the lithium embodied in the batteries for electric vehicles (BEVs).

The CME tool provides energy, mining, battery and electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers, governments and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) stakeholders with key data and metrics to self-report aspects of their emissions and energy use throughout their operations, along with Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and actions they are taking to address climate change.

The platform allows for companies to self-report aspects of their emissions and energy use throughout their operations, along with GHG emissions reduction targets and actions they are taking to address climate change.

Transition to Renewable Energy generation and storage will have a material impact on demand for critical material such as aluminium, copper and lithium. In the case of lithium the accelerated scale of demand is significant (the demand for the metal in 2050 from just li-ion batteries for electric vehicles reaching over 500 percent of current levels of production).

Climate-Smart Mining (CSM) supports the sustainable extraction, processing and recycling of minerals and metals needed to secure supply for low-carbon technologies and other critical sectors by creating shared value, delivering social, economic and environmental benefits throughout their value chain in developing and emerging economies.

The CSM team developed a new program to better understand mineral supply chains, particularly in respect to developing countries, as well as the associated emissions of the minerals needed for Climate Action (SDG 13).

Understanding the supply chains of the minerals is crucial to help facilitate their steady and secure supply while minimising the emissions associated with these supply chains.

This is an area of interest for both policy makers, investors and manufacturers that want to reduce carbon footprint across the chain. Access to data and information is required to enable informed decision making across the stakeholder landscape from mineral extraction to assembly and shipping.

Understanding the supply chains of the minerals is crucial to help facilitate their steady and secure supply while minimising the emissions associated with these supply chains.

This is an area of interest for both policy makers, investors and manufacturers that want to reduce carbon footprint across the chain. Access to data and information is required to enable informed decision making across the stakeholder landscape from mineral extraction to assembly and shipping.

The following screenshots show how the platform information is structured in four rich views.

Building Green and More Resilient Lithium Supply Chains

The data used in the dashboard provides information on the key global lithium-EV supply chain. It also enables users to customise their own supply chain and compare the emissions footprint of their supply chain against others. Information and data are then provided to users to help them understand their options in reducing their GHG emissions.

The Climate Mineral Explorer is looking to expand beyond lithium, and integrate other key minerals that are central to the energy transition, including potentially copper, nickel and manganese.

This first of a kind platform on lithium serves as a pilot for a wider project to create a larger, publicly available digital platform that captures a similar scope of information and data and embodies similar functionality for a much wider grouping of mineral-technology combinations.