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A country that has to make up for decades of backwardness that has to make an immense effort to converge with the most developed countries of the European Union has to bet on the cutting edge technologies of the future because it is not worth defining as a priority the that others already produce said Prime Minister Antnio Costa.The Prime Minister closed the meeting The Value Chain of Sustainable Batteries - Valuing the national capacity for industrialization innovation and research in advanced materials and batteries which took the first step in the creation of a cluster for the production chain of sustainable batteries in Braga.Antnio Costa stated that the battery sector is one of the areas in which we have to be able to develop the technologies of the future adding that this value chain will have enormous transforming potential in the country.Raw material knowledge moneyThe first reason is that for the first time in many technological transitions we are one of the countries that have better natural reserves of the raw material that is at the base of this transition he said referring to lithium. The second is that we have another resource of greater importance knowledge to transform lithium reserves into something with greater added value.This value chain implies mining but also the knowledge that guarantees environmentally sustainable mining refining the production of cells that Europe does not produce which generates greater added value and is limited to importing and the capacity to final assembly of batteries.The Prime Minister also said there is a scarce resource in Portugal which is capital but this time the European Union has mobilized extraordinary financial resources that we have to use. In our Recovery and Resilience Plan we have set aside an amount of almost 1000 million euros for mobilizing agendas with the potential to grow another 1000 million if there is capacity and effective demand.Antnio Costa welcomed the cluster that was formed here bringing together the territories - Boticas and Montalegre from where the resources are extracted must be duly rewarded for this wealth that will be able to be multiplied by the application of knowledge and industrialization - the centers of knowledge production the different industrial and business activities adding that it was good to hear here something that is rare to hear in Portugal that only by joining the efforts of everyone we will achieve.energy is criticalThe Prime Minister recalled that Portugal was the first country in the world to commit to achieving carbon neutrality in 2050 a goal that is now European but which requires a lot of work because it involves changing the mode of production and of our habits of life in which the question of energy is critical.Referring to that Portugal is considered by the European Commission the country in the best conditions to reach the goal of carbon neutrality in 2050 and in the best conditions to obtain a reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030 he said that this is because the country has prepared for this transition more than 10 years ago and because there was a lot of investment in particular in the production of renewable energies.We were therefore among the first to understand one of the biggest problems of this energy paradigm shift which is the problem of energy storage due to the need to apply these renewable energies to the mode of production or mobility. For this reason the issue of batteries is critical he stressed.Reindustrialize EuropeAntnio Costa pointed out that the pandemic made a very important contribution to making Europe realize the strategic fragility in which it finds itself suddenly Europe realized that it had lost the capacity to produce such basic goods as masks or alcohol-gel.And he understood how globalization has to be reconciled with a reorganization of value chains as it cannot have such extensive value chains in which the risk of disruption in a link puts the capacity to supply essential goods in crisis he said. .This has created a priority in Europe to reindustrialize and regain the capacity to produce fundamental goods in Europe. Portugal cannot fail to be at the forefront of this reindustrialization effort because as it demonstrated in the production of masks it is still one of the European countries where there is industrial capacity know-how and capable human resources he said.
