In its third edition of the World Wildlife Crime Report, which covers data from 2015 to 2021, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime provided an 

Electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for 95% of the demand for more than 750 gigawatt hours (GWh) of battery output in 2023.

In its second annual Global Critical Minerals Outlook, released in May, the International Energy Agency reviewed rising demands of critical