German Mineral Resources Agency (DERA)
Booth number: R 30-4
dera.bund.de
About us
The German Mineral Resources Agency (DERA) is the national information and advisory platform for mineral raw materials and secondary materials and is part of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). DERA by decree of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) is aligned with the German Government`s raw materials strategy. Our services are aimed at companies and political stakeholders and include in depth analyses and consultancy services across a wide range of mineral raw materials and their intermediate products.
Address
Wilhelmstraße 25–30
13593 Berlin
Germany
E-mail: inga.osbahr@bgr.de
Phone: +49 30 36993203
Internet: dera.bund.de
Contact person:
Dr. Inga Osbahr
Geologist
E-mail: inga.osbahr@bgr.de
Products & Services
Main DERA products include: DERA Raw Materials Criticality List, DERA Industry Workshops, Detailed raw materials supply/demand risk analyses, DERA Investment and Procurement Guides, Mineral raw materials market research and consultancy services.
DERA Criticality list 2023
As part its raw materials monitoring, every two years DERA examines the supply concentration and country risk of the production of numerous mineral raw materials and their intermediate products at various stages of the value chain.
The DERA Criticality List 2023 concludes that there are potential procurement risks for almost 46% of all mining, refining and trading products examined. The People's Republic of China continues to play a dominant role as the most important supplier of a large number of mineral raw materials.
Lithium Risk Assessment 2023
Due to ist specific properties, lithium for rechargeable batteries will continue to be an indispensable, non-substitutable key component for the areas of e-mobilty and the expansion and storage of renewable energies (wind, solar) in the coming decades. In the updated study, DERA assesses the future market supply for lithium across six global and two European scenarios. Based on the demand in 2020, demand could increase by a factor of four to eight by 2030
Securing mineral raw material supply
On behalf of DERA, PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH examined instruments and strategies that foreign companies use to secure their supply of raw materials and thus increase planning security. The findings of this study are intended to encourage German companies to pay greater attention to the issue of securing mineral raw materials and to examine their supply chains for possible weak points.
The study focuses on the activities of companies in countries that operate in a market economy environment similar to Germany. A total of eleven safeguarding strategies from a large number of identified individual measures are examined and analyzed on the basis of their application by foreign companies in seven countries
