After launching its Critical Minerals mission at London Climate Action Week, the Foundation has successfully established an agenda to create a circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature. for critical minerals.
Applying our implementation strategy, we are driving market transformation by providing the vision and thought leadership, identifying systemic barriers to change, and convening industry leaders around cross-sector projects and policy advocacy to overcome them.
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Apply to join our Critical Minerals Network
Do you want to help build the circular critical minerals system of the future? Help shape the debate and the market? We are looking for industry leaders, investors, policymakers, and innovators to join our sector-specific working groups and implementation projects.
Support our Critical Minerals mission
As a not-for-profit organisation, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation relies on philanthropic support to to deliver its mission. This funding model protects our independence, enabling us to convene across sectors and champion a circular economy without compromise. Philanthropic partners also allow us to be ambitious and agile, accelerating system-level change in response to global challenges. We actively seek to work with philanthropic organisations that share our ambition to build an economy that works for people, business, and the natural world.
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