Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, looks set to visit in the coming months.īut even as the outside world spies resources in Latin America, governments there are taking back control. German officials have scheduled at least three high-level meetings in South America this year. In March John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate tsar, visited the continent. Recently delegations from the United States and the European Union have flocked there partly to secure resources that will be needed in the energy transition and to diversify their supply away from China. The region also has two-fifths of its copper and a quarter of its nickel. O ver half of the world’s lithium, a metal used in batteries for electric vehicles, can be found in Latin America.
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