EcosystemSUMMIT & RESEARCH
DEFINITION USED IN THIS COLLECTION

Material demand.

Resource requirements and end uses shaping demand for minerals or other material inputs.

What it includes

Resource requirements and end uses shaping demand for minerals or other material inputs.

Where the boundary lies

Digitising documents alone does not establish physical resource demand.

How speakers put it.

The definition above is used to organise this collection. The passages below show how the idea appears in discussion.

Evidence in practice.

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Analyst applies. Cobalt extraction and refining are described as concentrated in a few countries with energy-transition and other uses.

analyst applies · DAY 3 · 3:13

Cobalt extraction and refining are described as concentrated in a few countries with energy-transition and other uses.

Shares and geography are attributed, not independently checked.

Likely speaker
Elizabeth A. BennettEndowed Professor; Strategic Advisor · UN Forum on Sustainability Standards (advisory role)LinkedIn ↗
Alec PopperResponsible Sourcing & Sustainability Officer · Cobalt InstituteLinkedIn ↗
The Cleanest Ton: Critical Minerals, Trust, and the New Extractive BargainWatch passage →

Qualifies the boundary. Digitising documents alone does not establish physical resource demand.

Differences and limits.

No event-wide agreement is inferred from coding. Compare the attributed examples and boundaries; co-occurrence is not evidence of agreement.

Digitising documents alone does not establish physical resource demand.

Related concepts.

related · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

sufficiency →

Material demand asks what drives resource use; sufficiency asks whether needs can be met with less or differently.

Codes that occur in the same passages

Co-occurrence describes coding, not equivalence, causation or agreement.