G7 leaders have agreed a strategy to protect and diversify critical mineral supply chains in the interest of shared national and economic security, at the group's annual summit in Canada. The group established a Critical Minerals Action Plan, which focused on anticipating shortages of critical minerals, co-ordinating responses to deliberate market disruptions, and diversifying and onshoring mining, processing, manufacturing and recycling where possible. The group also pledged to support mineral-rich emerging and developing countries by building local processing capacity, improving artisanal mining practices and ... (full story)