據阿納多盧新聞8月1日消息稱，英澳跨國礦業公司力拓(Rio Tinto)承諾斥資1.5億美元創建一個“未來材料中心”項目，尋找為能源轉型提供材料的途徑。

由倫敦帝國理工學院領導的“力拓未來材料中心”將資助研究項目，以改變重要材料的生產、使用和回收方式。它還旨在使這些材料在環境、經濟和社會方面更具可持續性。

根據合作關系，力拓和帝國理工學院將確定一系列需要解決的重大全球挑戰。這些將成為該項目與一些國際學術機構合作開展的首批研究項目的基礎。

該項目的第一批研究項目將于2024年獲得資助，并于2023年下半年創建。力拓將在10年內向該中心投資1.5億美元。

“為了讓世界實現凈零排放，我們必須找到更好的方法來提供所需的材料。”力拓首席執行官Jakob Stausholm在一份聲明中說。

曹海斌 譯自 阿納多盧新聞

原文如下：

Rio Tinto invests $150 million in search for green energy resources

Anglo-Australian multinational mining company Rio Tinto has committed $150 million to create a 'Center for Future Materials' project to find ways to provide materials for the energy transition.

The 'Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials,' led by Imperial College London, will fund research programs to transform the way vital materials are produced, used and recycled. It also aims to make these materials more environmentally, economically and socially sustainable.

Under the partnership, Rio Tinto and Imperial College will define a set of major global challenges that need to be addressed. These will form the basis of the first research programs the project pursues in partnership with a selection of international academic institutions.

The project's first research programs will be funded in 2024, once it is created in the second half of 2023. Rio Tinto will invest $150 million in the center over a 10-year period.

'For the world to reach net zero, we must find better ways to provide the materials it needs,' Rio Tinto Chief Executive Officer Jakob Stausholm was quoted as saying in a statement.