Alan Young | Senior Advisor on Extractives Strategy and the World Circular Economy Forum, Circular Economy Leadership Canada and Director of MERG

2025-06-09

Welcome to The Zenergy Podcast! This is the third interview in a series of interviews host Karan Takhar has been conducting at D.C. Climate Week. Today, he has the pleasure of speaking with Alan Young. Alan is the Senior Advisor on Extractives Strategy and the World Circular Economy Forum for the Circular Economy Leadership in Canada. He is also the Director of MERG (Materials Efficiency Research Group). Karan and Alan speak about the intersection of extractives and sustainability in Canada and North America, what the biggest barriers are to getting more processing capacity, and Alan provides a helpful overview of the mining industry in Canada. Finally, they touch on Canada’s recent election and Alan shares one policy that he believes could be a gamechanger in the mining industry if implemented. Thanks for tuning in!

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Editing/Graphics: Desta Wondirad, Wondir Studios

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