Making Critical Mineral Recovery Bankable And Insurable: Breakfast Panel, Discussion, Networking Session
Registration: Approval Required. Your registration is subject to host approval.
Hosted by
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Carbon Trust, Solas Capital, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Buckstop
Who should join us
This conversation is built for lenders and insurers, and for the institutional investors, valuation professionals, asset owners, and corporate supply chain leaders who would put these models to work and can speak to what constrains them.
What to expect
Speakers from Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Carbon Trust, Solas Capital, Ellen Macarthur Foundation, and Buckstop will lead the discussion.
A short keynote to set the stage, will be followed by a panel built around three focused questions on bankability, live audience questions, and blended networking at themed tables. The session operates under the Chatham House Rule.
Participants will come away with:
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A clear view of how circular models for critical minerals can become bankable and insurable in practice.
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Key insights on integrating residual value and end-of-life recovery into mainstream financing, risk, and portfolio frameworks for lenders, insurers, and institutional investors.
Registration is confirmed by the organizers to balance the room across our audiences and among Community of Practice members and non-members. Breakfast is provided; dietary requirements are collected at registration.
Program
The global transition to clean energy faces acute critical mineral shortages, yet billions of dollars in recoverable materials remain trapped within deployed assets and discarded as waste due to a critical "bankability gap." Because lenders and insurers cannot currently track, value, or underwrite these embedded materials, their residual value is entirely absent from balance sheets and borrowing bases. To overcome this bottleneck, this event convenes leading financial institutions, insurers, and circularity practitioners to explore practical solutions like asset residual value pricing and Metals-as-a-Service (MaaS). MaaS is a circular business model where retained ownership enables precise material tracking and generates stable, long-term cash flows. By bringing together diverse perspectives across the value chain, the panel will identify the specific term-sheet structures, risk-return profiles, and valuation methods required to transform critical mineral recovery from a financial blind spot into a fully investable and insurable asset class, drawing on live experience in structuring long-tenor, cash flow–backed private debt for circular and energy-efficiency assets.
