This session will provide a snapshot of how collective progress remains grounded in the material world, where the availability of critical minerals increasingly shapes the pace at which we can deploy energy technologies, scale the digital economy, and strengthen global security. Demand is rising and meeting it will require doing more with less. No single financial instrument can address all barriers to investment across different minerals and contexts. Mobilizing capital will require bespoke interventions rather than a one-size-fits all approach, ones that are sensitive to market structures, project stages and jurisdictional risk profiles. The session will also explore practical constraint: investment readiness. Building a more distributed and resilient supply network will depend on coordinated action across governments, industry, financial institutions, and development finance partners deploying catalytic tools that crowd in rather than displace private capital. Anchoring this discussion is the most recent Securing Minerals for Energy and Technologies (SMET) report, developed in collaboration with the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA (CGEP), Making Critical Minerals Bankable: Policy Tools to Unlock Investment. The report draws on the expertise of 50+ financiers spanning private banking, MDBs, DFIs, institutional investors, sovereign funds and leading mining companies. The report maps six policy tools to bridge the gap between mineral market needs and investable projects, supported by eight case studies solutions across global mineral value chains.