Lessons from the lithium triangle

Can three countries in the most lithium-rich place on Earth use the green revolution to break free from the extractive patterns of the past that leave little behind?

Natalie Alcoba

Natalie Alcoba is a Buenos Aires–based journalist and associate editor at Corporate Knights. It is quiet and lonely on the mountainous range of Argentina’s Catamarca Province, where llama-like vicuña graze and stocky shrubs steel themselves against the windswept altitude of the grassland known as the puna. But do not be fooled: geopolitical tectonic shifts are happening here, on the axis of the so-called lithium triangle, where roughly 60% of the green energy transition’s most coveted resource is stored. Lithium has never been more in demand. The precious metal that powers batteries – everything from cellphones and laptops to solar panels and electric vehicles – is now woven into the tapestry of moves and countermoves by the world’s largest powers, as they acquire supplies and set up production lines. By some…

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Corporate Knights (Digital) - 1 Issue, Fall 2023

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