Mineral Availability, Sustainable Mining, & ClimateTech Supply Chain Challenges w/ Nick Rohleder

Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 61.

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Today our conversation is with Nicholaus Rohleder. Nick does many things, including teaching at Columbia and running Climate Commodities (a commodity trading and logistics company). Our conversation was one of my favorite conversations since it was very high level and tackled many macro problems. 

We discussed Geo Politics, Globalization/De-globalization, Mining, Mineral Availability, and the unique problems faced by climate tech companies building hardware solutions. 

An all-around great conversation with Nick. Enjoy! 

The Main talking points of today's discussion are:

• Intro to Nick
• What they do at CCI
• The issue they wanted to solve 
• Off-take and input finance 
• Clean Mining 
• Geo-Political climate and the zero-sum mentality of smaller nations 
• Supply Chain Issues
• Energy Independence 
• Education / University Landscape

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