Sustainable and secure supply of critical raw materials – European and national initiatives

Critical raw materials (CRMs) are indispensable for a wide set of strategic sectors, including those related to Ecological Transition and their availability might highly impact on Green Deal foreseen actions. The last years health and geopolitical crisis has underlined the limits of global supply chains and there is a need to individuate and implement sustainable and secure CRMs supply alternatives. Several initiatives either at European and national Italian level have been put in place to face this criticality, starting from the mapping of the actual situation and including measures to improve the refining, processing and recycling of critical raw materials in Europe Within this event the context and main initiatives will be presented.

Session Chairs

Barbara Clementi, Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy
Silvia Grandi, Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security
Claudia Brunori, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development)

Programme

14.00-14.20 Registration

Session 1. International Contest

14.20-14.30 Institutional greetings
Valentino Valentini, Viceministro al Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy (intervento videoregistrato)

Introduction by the Chair
Barbara Clementi, Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy

14.30-14.45 Identification of EU CRM list – Approach and results of the SCRREEN project
Claudia Brunori, Resource Efficiency and Cycle Closure Division of the Department of Sustainability of Production and Territorial Systems - ENEA

14.45-15.00 Use responsible business conduct to make the procurement of critical minerals through partnerships more reliable
Benjamin Katz, Manager Minerals Sector Programme Centre for Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) - OECD 

15.00-15.15 Raw Material information system: the knowledge broker for raw materials security of supply, circularity and sustainability
Serenella Sala, Research Officer at Joint Research Centre

15.15-15.30 Enviromental, Social, Governance (ESG) Certification for Critical Raw Materials
Silvia Grandi, Directorate General Circular Economy - Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security

15.30-15.45 European approach to critical raw materials
Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Unit, Circular Economy - DG Environment, European Commission

Session 2 Italian National Initiatives

15.45-15.55 Introduction by the Chair Silvia Grandi, Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security

15.55-16.10 The Italian national Table for Critical Raw Materials
Barbara Clementi, Directorate General for Industrial Policy, Innovation and SMEs - Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy

16.10-16.25 The Italian platform for Phosphorous
Roberta De Carolis, Researcher at ENEA, National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

16.25-16.40 Rebuilding mining skills: databases and training activities in the PNRR Geosciences IR-WP 5.1 'Sustanaible Mining' project.
Fiorenzo Fumanti, Researcher at ISPRA  

16.40-16.55 Standardization for Critical Raw Materials
Viviana Buscemi, Technical Project Manager at UNI

17.00-17.50 Round table of enterprises representatives

Chair Claudia Brunori, ENEA

Orazio Zoccolan, General Director - ASSOMET
Fernanda Panvini, Head of Circular Economy - ENEL Group
Danilo Bonato, General Director - ERION
Alfredo Schweiger, Technical director - FEDERACCIAI

18.00 Discussion and closure by the Chairs