Building resilience Making resource-intensive manufacturing sustainable is certainly no easy feat. The biggest challenge, however,“ stems from rapidly evolving policies across different markets”, Dennis feels. Regulations like the European Union’ s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism( CBAM) require extreme transparency across the supply chain.
While global battery demand is surging, more than 75 % of the supply chain remains concentrated in China according to the IEA. Any new environmental standard passed in Europe or North America sends shockwaves upstream. Manufacturers now need to act as global coordinators, pushing their entire domestic supplier
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