Climate Home News 5d ago

Join us for an afternoon of high-level discussions on transition minerals governance and the priorities of producing countries. Competition for minerals needed for clean energy technologies is reshaping geopolitical alliances, driving a new wave of partnerships, trade agreements and multilateral initiatives. But fundamental questions remain about who benefits, on what terms, and for what use as demand for AI and defence soars as well as how impacts on people and ecosystems are managed. Over an afternoon of discussion, this event will examine how this new era of resource diplomacy can ensure equitable benefit for producing countries while supplying the materials needed to accelerate a just energy transition everywhere. Taking place during London Climate Action Week, the event will bring together high-level speakers from mineral producing countries, the finance sector, the UN and civil society to reflect on the latest developments in mineral diplomacy and explore how new partnerships and multilateral initiatives can advance equitable, rights-respecting and sustainable mineral supply chains, creating win-win benefits for producing countries seeking to add value to their resources. The event will reflect on the outcomes of the G7 leaders’ summit taking place in Evian, France, and look ahead at the role the UK can play in advancing standards-based markets as it prepares to host the G20 next year. It will look at the role investors can play to drive responsible mining and ensure mutually beneficial partnerships for producing countries. It will also ask how producing countries can shape mineral alliances to advance their economic ambitions while ensuring human rights and environmental safeguards? What do win-win mineral partnerships actually look like? What is China’s new mineral alliance delivering for producing nations?