⛏️🇪🇺 Last week, the EU's first comprehensive minerals strategy ( #CRMA ) came into force.

😱🔥 The EU #RawMaterialsCoalition raises alarm over the regulation's potential for increased extraction and its harmful impact on nature and people.

Our guidelines👉 eurmc.org/publication/li…

🔊Listen to this #CriticalMinerals episode!

The incoming PWYP Executive Director Ketakandriana Rafitoson discusses the huge potential 🤩and risks 🚨of extracting critical minerals to support the global energy transition with researchers from IIED and AFREWATCH 🌍📻

Listen today!🔊📻

Enebi Opaluwa will speak on the energy transition, share some of Nigeria's climate targets, challenges and implications for the country🇳🇬

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Christelle Yesalaso from Publish What You Pay in #DRC highlights the importance of adherence to #contract #transparency as mandated in the DRC #mining code, & calls on government to avoid selective publication of mining contracts in DRC

Brain buzzing from workshop organized with Publish What You Pay-DRC and diverse range of Congolese activists and journalists in Kinshasa today - brainstorming on concrete steps that the country can take to trace a new path forward on governance of cobalt and other transition minerals.

The #CRMA will allow fast-tracking & funding of transition mineral supply chain projects deemed “strategic”🌍🔋

If we are serious about positive changes on the ground, projects must be assessed against robust standards with workers, communities & CSO’s meaningful participation.

The #EU Critical Raw Materials Act came into force yesterday.

😐 But the Commission’s lack of transparency regarding the criteria used to select which projects are deemed “strategic” is concerning…

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PWYP's Board is going through some changes, saying grateful goodbyes to our current Chair, Treasurer & other valued members 🙏🫂, and excited to welcome new members, including our new Chair and Treasurer!🥳

Read more from the outgoing Board Chair:

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Happy to be at the OECD Business and Finance Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply chains #OECDrbc , where SOMO co-organized a side session on trade policy and critical mineral governance with speakers from International Resource Panel (IRP) EU International Partnerships 🇪🇺 AFREWATCH Publish What You Pay Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Live from the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives Forum on Responsible Mining 💬

PWYP Africa Steering Committee Chair Adam Anthony hightlights the need for the energy transition to benefit resource-rich countries and not replicate the exploitation and injustice of the past 🌍