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In the context of heightened geopolitical tensions, countries have begun to institute measures to ensure critical or strategic mineral security. Minerals security contributes to a range of national- level policy imperatives, from clean energy to military defence.  Consumption of minerals such as copper, lithium, nickel and cobalt is expected to increase rapidly.  More needs to be understood about how competing pursuits of critical or strategic mineral security interact, and what implications this competition has for global-level imperatives of green transition, sustainable development, and peaceful interstate relations. The webinar will help unpack varying strategies towards but also implications of mineral resource competition, with particular emphasis on of the policies of the USA, EU, China and Russia.