Powering a Just Energy Transition: From Mine to Market (COP30)

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals’s report, Resourcing the Energy Transition: Principles to Guide Critical Energy Transition Minerals Toward Equity and Justice, proposes seven Guiding Principles and five Actionable Recommendations (ARs). Among these, AR1 and AR2 emphasize the importance of value addition, economic diversification, and robust traceability frameworks across mineral supply chains. Complementing this, the UN Guidance for Action on Critical Energy Transition Minerals elaborates on the principles, referring to specific standards, policies, case studies, knowledge resources, partnerships, and programmes to assist countries in their effective implementation. 

This UN inter-agency event will showcase how the UN Guiding Principles on CETM are implemented to build fair, equitable, and responsible mineral value chains, and how the UN can support developing mineral-producing countries in minimizing negative externalities and maximizing the positive contributions of these value chains to sustainable development.

The event will be moderated by Ana Carolina Gonzalez, Senior Director for Programs, NRGI