The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions
This clean energy technology uses the most minerals.
What is Offshore Wind?
This term describes the equitable treatment of marginalized communities affected by climate change
What is climate justice?
This is the number one source of carbon emissions in the United States
What is transportation?
This is the year that the University of Virginia anticipates to be carbon-neutral by.
This was the name of the coffee shop that came and visited us earlier this week.
(Shoutout free coffee)
What is JBird?
A typical electric car requires this much more mineral inputs than a conventional car. (ex: 2 times more, 3 times more, etc)
What is 6 times?
This term refers to the harmful effects of mining, including environmental degradation and community displacement.
What are the impacts of mining?
States such as New York and California banned the sales of what by 2035?
What is gas cars?
This is the year that the University of Virginia plans to be fossil-free by.
What is 2050?
This is the full name of the Professor of SOC 4540.
What is Dan Driscoll?
This agency works with countries around the world to shape energy policies for a secure and sustainable future
What is the International Energy Agency?
This region is responsible for high consumption of resources extracted from the Global South, contributing to environmental injustices.
What is the Global North?
This is the most non-renewable metal for EV batteries that is in high demand
What is lithium?
What is the University of William & Mary?
What is 1819?
(100 pt bonus if said: January 25th, 1819)
This is the legally binding international treaty on climate change.
What is The Paris Agreement?
This action involves ensuring local communities are consulted and compensated before mining operations begin.
What is community consent?
This is the most energy-efficient method of allowing people to move around
What is public transit and active transit?
As of 2023, UVA has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly how much (percentage) from 2010 levels.
What is 45%?
This is the name of the famous poet who stayed at UVA in 1826 and studied "Ancient and Modern Languages"
What is Edgar Allan Poe?
This country extracts the most lithium.
(Hint: Southern Hemisphere)
What is Australia?
This approach is criticized for merely shifting the problem of mining from one region to another without addressing root causes.
What is shifting mining operations?
This is responsible for 58% of transportation sector emissions in the United States
What are passenger cars?
Currently, how many of UVA’s 187 academic departments include sustainability course offerings (Such as this class!)
These are the names of the people presenting today
What are Kate, Grace, Victoria, and Lauren?