Managing global materials supply chains is becoming more complex and contested. As geoeconomic tensions rise, countries and companies are racing to secure the minerals, metals and other materials needed for transforming the global economy. Surging demand and intensifying climate and nature risks are also placing unprecedented pressure on materials value chains. Companies are adapting, but firm-level strategies alone are often insufficient to address such systemic risks, making international cooperation essential for supply chain resilience. …A new World Economic Forum white paper, The Future of Materials Systems: Cooperation Opportunities in a Multipolar World, shows that interest-based “coalitions of the doing”, combined with a renewed coordinating role for intergovernmental organizations, can help drive action on common interests. This approach can deliver pragmatic outcomes for materials value chains, particularly in areas such as data traceability, international standards and market cooperation.