Limits to the critical raw materials approach by Bram Buijs, Henrike Sievers and Luis A. Tercero Espinoza published in November 2012 Proceedings of the ICE - Waste and Resource Management

The POLINARES Final Conference - Accessing Oil, Gas and Minerals in A Changing World - was held on 28th November in Brussels

Luis Tercero was a keynote speaker at the Expert Workshop on Security and Scarcity of Raw Materials organized by the JRC

Philip Andrews-Speed participated in NATO Roundtable on Energy Security on 5th November

The POLINARES Final Conference will be held in Brussels on 28th November 2012.

Luis Tercero was an invited speaker at the EU-US Expert Workshop on Raw Material Flows & Data organized by DG Enterprise and Industry

Philip Andrews-Speed participated in the Transatlantic Dialogue on Energy, Water and Innovation Workshop in Washington DC

The POLINARES project published its third Policy Brief entitled "Critical Raw Materials: Developing Long-Term Strategies" in July 2012.

The POLINARES project published its second Policy Brief entitled "The changing oil value chain: Implications for security of supply" in June 2012.

Philip Andrews-Speed presented the results of the POLINARES study on raw material criticality at two conferences run jointly by the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.