UN Initiatives on Minerals

🌱 What are the concerns? The demand for minerals critical to the energy transition is expected to rise considerably, as governments phase out fossil fuels and move to triple the capacity of global renewable energy by 2030. In light of this, the extraction of critical minerals is also expected to tr

🌱 Who is on the panel? On 26 April 2024, UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched a new panel on “critical energy transition minerals”. It currently consists of close to 100 countries. Most of the largest producing and consuming countries are on the panel. Both countries from the Global North

🌱 Why was the UN panel set up? The UN Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals was set up on 26 April 2024. At COP28, several “resource-rich developing countries” had voiced that they were “experiencing issues along the[ir] minerals value chain”. The UN panel was founded in response to a propos