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Europe should investigate local sourcing of renewable energy raw materials, according to the CEO of the mining industry

In a guest article in the business newspaper Handelsblatt, Roberto Garcia Martinez of Swedish mining company Eurobattery Minerals writes that European states should seriously consider sourcing key raw materials for more climate-friendly technologies domestically rather than relying on imports from…