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Earlier today, UN Secretary General António Guterres launched "Resourcing the Energy Transition: Principles to Guide Critical Energy Transition Minerals Towards Just and Equity", a call to action that “the race to net zero cannot trample over the poor.” In a furious four-month sprint, we as panel members sought to define “a new paradigm rooted in equity and justice.” In a context of polarization, geopolitical jockeying, and persistent failures of the mining sector to deliver economic opportunities, our report recognizes that justice and equity must be at the center of the energy transition. In the report, we affirm long standing and hard fought for principles on human rights, Free Prior and Informed Consent, transparency and anti-corruption. We also recognize that these principles and practices have not yet enabled low- and middle-income producer countries to avert harms and achieve full benefit from their resources. And so, we signpost new principles and norms which must be established – including asserting the rights of low- and middle-income producer countries to expert that the mining sector delivery on benefit sharing, value addition and economic diversification. With the US, EU, China and industry at the panel table, our report demands that the needs and ambitions of people in low- and middle-income producer countries be centered, and their national priorities acknowledged and met. Deep structural inequities and power imbalances must still be grappled with, but our recommendations and actions chart a path forward – one that NRGI will work in partnership with reformers around the world and across sectors to achieve. A huge thank you to the phenomenal Erica Westenberg who provided invaluable support to the panel deliberations, to Anabella Rosemberg whose passion and pragmatism I seek to emulate, to Charlotte Boyer for her tireless cat herding and to Gabriela Flores for amplifying our efforts. And to the many Natural Resource Governance Institute colleagues, whose expertise and ambitions shine through this report. Congratulations to our Co-Chairs, panel members and UN colleagues for their tireless efforts! 👉 Read our analysis: https://lnkd.in/e9KjfUd6 👉 Read the UN panel guidance: https://lnkd.in/eTUB_Ace Kristi Disney Bruckner Rohitesh Dhawan Mark Robinson Marit Y. Kitaw Tim Gould Beniamin Strzelecki Sara Olsvig Anna Shpitsberg Greg Radford Adam Matthews Selwin Hart Daniel Franks
A very instructive report. Full of great insights! Congratulations for that great effort!
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1wThe clear bottom line is that there is no #energytransition that isn’t a #justtransition in #mining. Why? We need exponentially more #criticalminerals and supply will be unavailable when conflict is in play. ‘Just’ for whom? 🏹 miners - people working in artisanal as well as large scale mining 🏹 communities that neighbor mines 🏹 less developed economies where resources wealth can catalyze #sustainabledevelopment When? Now. #netzeri #esg #sdgs #humanrights #asm