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ACCELERATING THE TRANSITION
The energy transition

and resource conservation:

incompatible goals?

The Prince’s Government’s Mission for Energy Transition discusses

underlying problems and suggests overall solutions.

The conference was held at the Monaco Yacht Club resources for their production. “Mining and refining
on 24 March 2021, led by the Director of the Prince’s these materials leads to invisible pollution, as it is
Government’s Mission for Energy Transition, An- outsourced. But this does not stop us from having
nabelle Jaeger-Seydoux, along with five experts and a clear analysis of the overall life cycle of green tech-
the journalist Guillaume Pitron, a specialist in raw ma- nologies”, the journalist explained, pointing out the
terial geopolitics. subsequent geopolitical problems. However, “we are
entering age 2.0 of the energy transition: we must not
AGE 2.0 OF THE ENERGY ask ourselves whether the transition is required, but
TRANSITION how we do it, and avoid new demands created by
mining or refining becoming problems of the future”.
The director of the documentary La Face cachée
des énergies vertes (The hidden side of green ener-
gies) spoke about his research into renewable energy
solutions, highlighting the growing need for mining