Summary: Navigating Clean Energy Industries and Rivalry in Decarbonisation
Explore RUSI's insights into supply-chain dependencies and their implications for global security, utilising trading data from the clean energy industry.
Read the interactive summary for an analysis of this data.
Risk from supply-chain dependencies has become a hot topic for policymakers around the world in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical competition and the energy and grain crises that followed Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine in 2022.
Massive demand for clean energy technologies due to decarbonisation has put a particular spotlight on clean energy industries and their concentration in China.
In the first half of 2024, RUSI developed a suite of indices based on trading data from the United Nations Trade Statistics Database (Comtrade) for the 145 countries for which data was available in 2022, to understand the importance of different countries to security of supply at different points in the production process.
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WRITTEN BY
Dan Marks
Research Fellow for Energy Security
Cyber
Dr James Henderson
Associate Fellow
RUSI International
