Stewarding Just Transitions in Mining: A Global South Perspective

This event brings together responsible investors in the extractive sector – asset owners, asset managers, investment and commercial banks, index providers, emerging market companies, and data providers – to engage with the transboundary dimensions of the Just Transition in the extraction and trade of critical minerals for clean technologies.
Sourcing critical minerals is fundamental to the low-carbon transition. The IEA projects a fivefold rise in lithium demand by 2040, doubling of graphite and nickel demand, and a 50–60% increase in cobalt and rare earths – driven by electric mobility, batteries, and clean-energy technologies.
Yet mining projects are frequently cited in environmentally sensitive regions and on the traditional territories of Indigenous Peoples. Insufficient consultation and inequitable benefit-sharing generate material financial risks, including protests, project delays, costly remediation obligations, and loss of social licence, that are not always reflected in valuations. Tailings dam failures alone have created multi-billion-dollar liabilities. These transboundary just transition risks demand greater investor attention.

8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Public Panel

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