From awareness to action4 Building resilience together requires coordinated leadership to align demand, policy and investment – ensuring materials are available when and where needed. Resilience will not come from firms optimizing alone. Choices in one tier shape timelines and costs across others. Progress depends on strengthened coordination – aligning priorities, mobilizing capital and sequencing action across industries, governments and financiers. Effective coordination mechanisms – whether local, national or cross-industry – can provide the visibility, legitimacy and capacity to translate plans into delivery. By aligning incentives, standards and investment timelines, they ensure that decisions taken in one part of the system reinforce, rather than compete with, those in another. When this alignment is absent, actions remain fragmented; when it is present, value chains can move in sequence from shared understanding to investment and delivery. Consultations also showed that companies are taking on new roles as mediators and bridge-builders – creating transparency, sharing information and piloting innovative ways to manage risk and translate policy signals into practical action. Coordination will not “self-organize”. It must be supported by empowered actors, including regional alliances, public-private taskforces and cross-sector partnerships capable of driving progress at their respective levels. Lessons from past disruptions 4.1 In many cases, supply shocks have triggered coordinated multistakeholder actions. The imperative now is to deploy them proactively to build resilience before risks materialize. Learnings from the consultations and examples of deployed actions (Figure 14) indicate that resilience improves fastest when two things happen in parallel: supply is strengthened and diversified where bottlenecks and concentration are greatest, and demand is managed so that exposure to supply is lower and more flexible. From Minerals to Megawatts: Building Resilience for EVs, Data Centres and Power Grids 28

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