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For 153 countries, we estimate the potential of recovering/recycling six energy transition critical minerals—aluminium, cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and rare earth elements—from their waste and scrap, if these countries have access to the latest technologies.
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Professor Jose Antonio Ocampo, Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), addressed the ECOSOC High-Level Segment, presenting the key messages of the CDP’s 2025 report. Professor Ocampo stressed the need for strengthened multilateral action to face historical challenges and structural shifts, conveyed the CDP's recommendations on poverty measurement ahead of WSSD2, and reported on the need to improve support to least developed countries (LDCs), including graduating countries.
Following the unprecedented changes in the trade policy of the United States, LDCs must contend simultaneously with significantly higher bilateral tariffs, policy uncertainty, lower growth prospects in many importing countries, a potential re-alignment of supply chains, and a disruption to the existing
multilateral order.
On 10 June, at its Management Segment, ECOSOC adopted its resolution on the report of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) at its 27th session.
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For 153 countries, we estimate the potential of recovering/recycling six energy transition critical minerals—aluminium, cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and rare earth elements—from their waste and scrap, if these countries have access to the latest technologies.
Following the unprecedented changes in the trade policy of the United States, LDCs must contend simultaneously with significantly higher bilateral tariffs, policy uncertainty, lower growth prospects in many importing countries, a potential re-alignment of supply chains, and a disruption to the existing
multilateral order.
The global economic outlook as of mid-2025 has deteriorated notably, according to the latest World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) update. Global growth is now forecast to slow to 2.4 per cent in 2025, down from 2.9 per cent in 2024 and 0.4 percentage points below the January forecast.
In the second CDP Issue Brief, Sabina Alkire discusses the potential of data for poverty eradication and the opportunities for WSSD2 to act on that potential.
