Perspective reveals a decarbonization enabling potential metric for copper supply chains, highlighting that maximizing mineral recovery is critical to expand clean energy technologies.
Copper production is emissions intensive, but recovering less copper could limit the clean energy technologies that depend on it. In this Perspective, the metric Decarbonisation Enabling Potential is introduced to quantify this supply chain trade-off.
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