Climate Mineral Explorer

A Climate-Smart Mining Dashboard

The Climate Mineral Explorer is an interactive tool that provides an overview of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as other Environmental Social, and Governance (ESG) aspects of critical minerals supply chains, from mine to clean energy technologies.

  1. The Minerals in Our Explorer

    The Climate Mineral Explorer contains a growing list of minerals to explore. Currently two minerals are included: Lithium and Graphite.

    Click on one of the minerals to find out more

    Lithium
    Graphite
  2. Lithium is a key component of electric vehicles (EVs) batteries and grid storage. But lithium’s production and transport has a carbon and environmental footprint that needs to be improved to ensure the mineral has a continued contribution to a low-carbon future.
  3. Lithium can be found on every continent in the world. Today, most lithium is produced in South America or Australia.
  4. Across the lithium supply chain, opportunities exist to further reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reduce energy and water used in mines and across the value chain. This increases the decarbonization impact of deploying EVs at scale for a truly clean energy transition.
  5. This dashboard explores the GHG and energy footprints of lithium supply chains for one EV and enables users to map sustainable opportunities for decarbonization.
  6. The Climate-Smart Mining Initiative has developed this platform within the context of the World Bank Climate Action Plan 2021 – 2025 pledging support to decarbonize the transport sector and accelerate the clean energy transition.