Over the past year or two BDI member, as part of its involvement with , has been developing the , a collaborative website that aims to bring together materials supply data in the hope of giving businesses a guide to managing the risk of material scarcity. The dashboard is a business tool that aims to define in greater detail how resource security links to critical materials supply.
The increasingly complexity of manufactured products now makes it almost impossible to come to grips with the value of , which presents real resource risks for businesses as climate pressures take hold (not to mention the logistical and political barriers) and global supply chains draw on more and more rare earth elements to feed demand for smarter IT and communications.
The event addressed the lack of understanding about the geological nature of these materials and their respective resource risks and raised awareness of just how significant this data is.
Also at the event Kingfisher talked about various projects, including the l, which are being funded by the
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