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Webinar: Energy Transition Minerals and E-Mobility - Reducing virgin material demand with less private car reliance, smaller battery sizes, and more circularity
Time: 20 August 2025, 15:30-17:00 CEST, 14:30-16:00 London, 15:30-17:00 Geneva, 16:30-18:00 Helsinki, 6:30-8:00 San Francisco
Venue: Zoom (registration required)
Cities that invest in electric mobility lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduce air and noise pollution, and create healthier public spaces. This transition also increases demand for energy transition minerals that have become central to geopolitical contentions. The current patterns of resource use are unsustainable and are key drivers of the triple planetary crisis. Sustainable and responsible e-mobility requires cities to electrify mobility while reducing material intensity, closing resource loops, and taking responsibility for the impacts in upstream value chains.
Cities can play active roles in addressing the triple planetary crisis, including not only climate change, but pollution and biodiversity loss within and beyond cities.
This webinar shares new research on how cities can electrify mobility while using fewer resources and applying circular economy principles. It highlights strategies that can reduce car dependency, reduce battery size, and advance battery material recovery and reuse.
The session invites policymakers, urban planners, researchers, and raw materials experts to explore practical solutions that align climate action with resource efficiency, social equity, and global responsibility.
Speakers
- Dr. Diana Arbeláez Ruiz, The University of Eastern Finland, and Ms. Nadejda Khamrakulova, UNECE - Opening and closing remarks.
- Mr. Emmett Hopkins, Climate and Community Institute - Achieving Zero Emissions with More Mobility and Less Mining.
- Prof. Zhongyun Fan, BCAST, Brunel University of London - Full Metal Circulation to Underpin a Sustainable Future.
Prof. Rauno Sairinen, University of Eastern Finland, shall facilitate comments and questions from the audience after the presentations.
Registration
Register to receive the Zoom link: https://link.webropol.com/ep/sumetwebinar1
