For the third consecutive year, more than 500 participants and leading local and international experts, the business community as well as representatives of different government institutions gathered at the LOOK UP 3 Green Transition & 5th Industrial Revolution conference on November 28 in Belgrade. Participants discussed new trends, challenges, and potential solutions in the fields of energy, sustainable development and environmental protection.

Marijanti Babic, Country Head, Rio Tinto Serbia participated at the panel Building value chains: From raw materials to market impact. At the panel, Marijanti was joined by Dr Marcus Wirtz, VDMA Mining & Minerals Chairman, John Steen, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Nemanja Mikac, CEO, ElevenES and Dr Sebastian Lüning, Executive Director, K-UTEC, Germany.

”It was a real privilege to participate at this year’s Look Up conference where I had an opportunity to exchange opinions and hear about the examples of global experience proving that modern and responsible mining and critical raw materials processing can be realized in line with the highest sustainability standards and safely, protecting both human and environment, directly opposing enormous amount of misinformation we have been exposed to in Serbia for quite some time now. A balanced public dialogue based on facts, scientific findings and scientific work of leading local and global experts are of crucial importance for a sound dialogue about Serbia’s resources, placing Serbia on a world map as one of the flagship countries of the 5th industrial revolution owing to innovations. This is of the utmost importance for the country, having in mind that Serbia is in a unique position to become one of the key hubs of green energy transition worldwide with one of the most promising and best explored lithium deposits which can bring extensive benefits with its development of a full circle value chain for the production of electric vehicles in Serbia, betterment of the country’s geopolitical status, professional development of the most desired experts in the global labor market within domestic education system and environmental protection in accordance with the highest domestic and EU standards”, Marijanti concluded.