Breaking with the past: Can mineral production build shared prosperity in the energy transition?

Building the renewable energy infrastructure and clean energy technologies the world needs to meet global climate goals is driving booming demand for minerals such as copper, lithium, cobalt and nickel.
These minerals are key to the world’s shift from fossil fuels to clean energy. But an unchecked acceleration of mining is simply not the silver bullet solution to the energy transition
Their extraction and processing are often associated with environmental destruction, pollution, human rights abuses and conflict, with local communities often shouldering many of the costs and too few of the benefits.
As countries race to secure supplies of these minerals, unsustainable practices are undermining trust in clean energy supply chains. This risks causing supply disruptions and threatens the delivery of climate and biodiversity goals.
At a time of ever more fraught geopolitics, concerns over supply chain concentration and the normalisation of a transactional approach of minerals for aid or security, calls for more cooperation and better governance are mounting.

What to expect?
This panel event will share examples where mineral extraction and processing has gone wrong and ask how the world can rebuild trust in mineral supply chains.
It will explore how mineral-rich developing countries can avoid replicating the resource curse of the past and what stronger standards and governance mechanisms are needed to ensure production of these resources is secure, sustainable and equitable.
This event aims to begin a robust conversation about the need for a more holistic approach to mineral extraction for the energy transition. Join us!