{"id":1061462,"date":"2026-07-01T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1061462\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:56:17","slug":"uk-critical-minerals-intelligence-centre-makes-recommendations-for-the-next-uk-criticality-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1061462\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre makes recommendations for the next UK criticality assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0report strengthens the\u00a0UK\u2019s\u00a0critically assessment\u00a0by\u00a0integrating market dynamics, supply-chain interdependencies, geopolitical\u00a0risks\u00a0and climate vulnerabilities through multiple complementary indicators. Material flow characterisation strengthens trade-based indicators, while the integration of climate vulnerability into the ESG criteria addresses a critical gap with minimal methodological disruption.\u00a0Corporate concentration\u00a0and production forecasting were also evaluated and deemed to\u00a0offer the best value\u00a0for targeted,\u00a0deep-dive\u00a0analyses\u00a0and potential stress-testing of industry supply chains,\u00a0but data limitations\u00a0prevent systematic application in criticality assessments.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0result is a more\u00a0granular, evidence-based\u00a0understanding of how\u00a0different materials\u00a0exhibit criticality,\u00a0whether\u00a0through\u00a0market opacity, supply-chain centrality, geopolitical concentration, or\u00a0climate exposure,\u00a0enabling tailored intervention strategies matched to specific material risk profiles rather than one-size-fits-all approaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Pierre Josso, deputy director of CMIC.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This\u00a0report strengthens the\u00a0UK\u2019s\u00a0critically assessment\u00a0by\u00a0integrating market dynamics, supply-chain interdependencies, geopolitical\u00a0risks\u00a0and climate vulnerabilities through multiple complementary indicators. Material flow characterisation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1061463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,284710,33723,10685,393,4884,8513,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1061462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-cmic","tag-critical-minerals","tag-critical-raw-materials","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-minerals","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}