Transitioning away from fossil fuels to green energy options will necessitate new infrastructure investments which have become a source of intensely polarized policy debates. There are, however, ways of evaluating the net impacts of various transition technologies and their requisite infrastructure from a systems perspective. In this presentation, Saleem Ali, Chair of the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware, will present some of these methods and how they can be applied using recent research which has compared metal sourcing from terrestrial mining to deep sea mining deposits as well as a range of circular economy options. The recent executive orders by the Biden Administration related to critical metals sourcing domestically and the growing tensions with China's dominance in the sector will also be discussed. 

Dartmouth Associate Professor of Environmental Studies will moderate a Q&A after the talk.

ACCESS THE TALK

This event will take place online only.