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Charting the Surge: Demands for Rare Earth Elements (REEs)
Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are a group of 17 essential elements, pivotal in technology from electric vehicles to smartphones.
Four of these elements, crucial for making high-performance permanent magnets, dominate 90% of the market.
As the race for energy transition accelerates, the demand for REEs is projected to skyrocket — expected to increase 67-fold by 2050, at a 15% annual growth rate.
This surge highlights a critical challenge: responsibly leveraging these limited, valuable resources.
In the race towards technological innovation, embedding sustainability in the use and management of REEs is not just important—it's imperative.
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The Business of Impact Investing in 2023
Impact investing is a form of investing that believes that every dollar invested can make a difference, while producing a profit. Over the past 20 years, impact investing has undergone a remarkable evolution, driven by a confluence of societal, economic, and technological factors. These influences have propelled impact investing into a crucial mechanism for addressing societal needs, traditionally the domain of public funding. In 2022, the impact investing market sat at US$1,146 billion, growing at a healthy compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29% over the last four years. This special report features interviews with thought leaders in the impact investing space, and offers an insightful perspective on the current and future state of impact investing, its challenges and opportunities, and highlights case studies of investors, social enterprises, and the impact they are having on the world.
