Episode 93 of Down to Business podcast
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Mar 17, 2021 • 47 minutes ago • 1 minute read • 
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Last week, Natural Resources Canada released a list of critical minerals that it said represent the building blocks of a future, low-carbon economy.
This week, Jumana Saleheen, chief economist for the CRU Group, a commodity research firm joined Down to Business to discuss the impacts, paradoxes and opportunities in the transition away from fossil fuels.
Big changes are on the horizon if and when the transition gets underway: Saleheen explained that we’ll need more copper and other metals to build the wind turbines, charging stations and solar panels to replace the existing infrastructure.
As governments around the world talk about building back their economies in a greener, less carbon intensive ways, there could be big changes on the horizons, she said.
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