The twin energy and digital revolutions present significant opportunities for ASEAN. AMS are major producers and refiners of many of the metals and minerals needed to enable these transitions and also important manufacturing hubs with high potential to further integrate into advanced global supply chains.  ASEAN has collaborated with the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) to undertake exploratory research to understand the implications of the energy transition for the ASEAN mineral sector, with a particular focus on the minerals and metals that are critical for the transition through the Scoping Study on Critical Minerals Supply Chains in ASEAN.

This study presents the state of ASEAN critical minerals value chains on the overview of how critical or strategic minerals can be defined and classified, assesses the wider critical mineral value chains including exploration activities, production, refining, manufacturing, and recycling segments, and provides an overview of both national and regional initiatives and approaches to critical mineral value chain and upgrading.