The papers describing the outcomes of Work Package 3 are now available for download.

The papers describing the outcomes of Work Package 2 are now available for download.

The fifth Thematic Workshop for the project was held on 15th December 2011 in Brussels and was hosted by NATO. The aim of the Workshop was to share with research and policy staff at NATO the approaches and initial findings of the project.

The fourth Workshop for the project was held on 15th November 2011 in The Hague and was hosted by the Clingendael International Energy Programme. The aim was to share some of the preliminary results of WP3 with specialists not directly involved in the project in order to refine the draft report before completion in February … Continue Reading ››

In a twin briefing paper published by the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP) and the German Geological Survey (BGR) the fierce debate about resource security is addressed and examined critically.

An article on changes in the Russian oil modelby Catherine Locatelli and Sylvain Rossiaud of CNRS, was published in Energy Policy, September 2011.

An article written by Islam Qasem, "Can Western sanctions touch Bashar al-Assad?", was recently published in the Guardian.

The POLINARES project held its Mid-term Review meeting in Brussels on 28th June 2011. The meeting focussed on the outputs and ideas of policy relevance from the first phase of the research.

Luis Tercero (Fraunhofer ISI) was an invited speaker at the 5th International Symposium "Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry" held in Aachen and also gave a plenary talk entitled "Raw Materials for Emerging Technologies" at the Berlin Recycling and Raw Materials Conference in June 2011.

The second of two Workshops (Cooperation and conflict in access to mineral raw materials) was held in Paris at the Paris School of International Affairs on 1st June 2011 in order to share the ideas and results emerging from WP2 with specialists not involved in the POLINARES project.