The UK is giving increasing importance to its critical materials strategy, but risks falling behind in the race to bolster supply chains, attendees at the Critical Metals and Minerals Conference in London heard today. The UK's strategy to secure critical materials needed for the energy transition was at the centre of the conversation today — days after the EU outlined its proposed Critical Materials Act, which aims to ensure member states have access to "secure, diversified, affordable and sustainable" supply. "The UK is not where it should be," said Baroness Lindsay Northover from the House of Lords' Critical ... (full story)