Sustainable Global Lithium Use in Energy: Challenges, Innovations, and Integration Strategies
持続可能なグローバルリチウム利用：エネルギートランジションにおける課題、革新、統合戦略 (AI 翻訳)
Tomasz Kalak, Yu Tachibana, Tatsuo Abe, Masanobu Nogami, Tatsuya Suzuki, M Y Tanaka
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日本語
リチウムイオン電池がEV・蓄電に必須となる中、資源の持続可能性に課題。本レビューは採掘からリサイクルまでのバリューチェーンを分析し、直接抽出法やバッテリーパスポート等の革新を評価。供給多角化と循環型経済の統合が必要と結論。
English
As lithium-ion batteries become critical for EVs and storage, sustainability concerns mount. This systematic review analyzes the full value chain from extraction to recycling, evaluating innovations like direct lithium extraction (DLE) and battery passports. It concludes that sustainable lithium use requires supply diversification, circular value chains, and multi-level governance.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本はリチウムのほぼ全量を輸入に依存。本論文は供給リスクと循環型経済の重要性を示し、国内のGX政策（蓄電池産業戦略など）に示唆を与える。
In the global GX context
Global energy transition depends on critical minerals like lithium. This paper provides a comprehensive framework addressing supply concentration, environmental footprint, and circularity—key issues for ISSB/TCFD risk disclosure and transition finance.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Comprehensive synthesis of lithium value chain challenges and innovations, useful for further studies on critical mineral sustainability.
🏢実務担当者:Insights into supply chain risks, recycling opportunities, and governance models for battery manufacturers and automakers.
🏛政策担当者:Highlights the need for multi-level governance to balance resource security, environmental efficiency, and social legitimacy.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Lithium has become one of the key raw materials for the energy transition due to the central role of lithium-ion batteries in electromobility, energy storage, and the integration of renewable energy sources. However, the rapid increase in demand reveals growing environmental, social, geopolitical, and market tensions. The aim of the paper is a critical synthesis of global lithium utilization from the perspective of challenges, technological innovations, and integrative strategies supporting a more sustainable material-energy system. A broad, systematic literature review covering the entire value chain was applied: resources, extraction, processing, end-use applications, second life of batteries, recycling, and governance. The analysis shows that the strategic importance of lithium arises from the increasing demand pressure from electric vehicles and stationary storage, while the sustainability of the current model is constrained by supply concentration, uneven control over downstream stages, the water-carbon footprint of extraction and processing, social conflicts, and incomplete integration of secondary loops. At the same time, innovations such as direct lithium extraction (DLE), recovery from geothermal brines, design for recycling, second life, and battery passports can partially alleviate these tensions, but they do not eliminate the need for primary supply in the short term. The conclusion of the work is that sustainable global lithium utilization requires simultaneous diversification of sources, development of circular value chains, and multi-level governance integrating resource security, environmental efficiency, and social legitimacy.
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