Green metals offer Australia a chance to transition its economy as demand for fossil fuels fades. Photo: Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS

Australian exporters, investors and governments need to urgently prepare for a global shift in metal and mineral demand, or risk losing a multibillion-dollar industry.

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Experts in climate change, mining and foreign trade issued the warning at an Australian National University event in Canberra on Wednesday, which heard demand for some of Australia's biggest exports was expected to plunge by 2050.

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