Submission to the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals: input on principles and recommendations
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This is a response to a call for submissions issued by the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals to help the Panel develop stronger and clearer principles and actionable recommendations for guidance to stakeholders across the critical energy transition minerals value chains and speed up their implementation.
The Panel made this call for submissions to inform its development of principles and actionable recommendations for implementation under four different workstreams, which will feed into ‘final overarching outcomes’ ahead of the UN General Assembly in September 2024.
Through its work and the development of the principles, the Panel will seek to fulfil the following objectives:
- Support a just and equitable transition to renewable energy while harnessing critical energy transition minerals for sustainable development.
- Ensure countries and local communities endowed with these minerals fully benefit economically, including through local value addition, while safeguarding social and environmental protections for affected communities and ecosystems.
- Strengthen international cooperation including through the alignment and harmonisation of existing norms, standards and initiatives and agree on areas for enhanced multilateral action.
The workstreams are as follows:
- Benefit sharing, local value addition and economic diversification.
- Transparent and fair trade and investments.
- Sustainable, responsible and just value chains.
- Mineral value chain stability and resilience.
For more information about the call for submissions, visit:
www.un.org/en/climatechange/panel-on-critical-minerals-submissions
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