IMF Working Papers

Energy Transition Metals

By Lukas Boer, Andrea Pescatori, Martin Stuermer

October 12, 2021

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Lukas Boer, Andrea Pescatori, and Martin Stuermer. Energy Transition Metals, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed October 25, 2024

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Summary

The energy transition requires substantial amounts of metals such as copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium. Are these metals a key bottleneck? We identify metal-specific demand shocks, estimate supply elasticities and pin down the price impact of the energy transition in a structural scenario analysis. Metal prices would reach historical peaks for an unprecedented, sustained period in a net-zero emissions scenario. The total value of metals production would rise more than four-fold for the period 2021 to 2040, rivaling the total value of crude oil production. Metals are a potentially important input into integrated assessments models of climate change.

Subject: Commodities, Copper, Economic theory, Metal prices, Metals, Prices, Supply elasticity

Keywords: Aggregate commodity demand shock, Climate change., Conditional forecasts, Copper, Energy transition, Estimate supply elasticity, Fossil fuels, Global, Metal prices, Metals, Metals, Metals production, Price risk, Prices, Structual scenario analysis, Structural vector autoregressions, Supply elasticity

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    41

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2021/243

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2021243

  • ISBN:

    9781513599373

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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