Executive Summary: Market Assessment on Critical Minerals

Commissioned by UNIDO’s Accelerate-to-Demonstrate (A2D) Facility, the assessment covers various dimensions. It maps out key policies, innovators, technologies, stakeholders, and initiatives in technological innovation in critical minerals value chains. It also identifies specific projects and countries with the potential for such technologies, the financial delivery mechanisms by which investment and expertise will be carried out to them, and the potential impacts of the technologies on the achievement of key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This assessment focuses on the mid- and downstream segments of critical minerals value chains.