COP29 side event: Advancing fairness in transition minerals supply chains

Join our COP29 side event in Baku: Advancing Fairness and Environmental and Social Responsibility in Transition Mineral Supply Chains: Experience from IRMA, PWYP, ResponsibleSteel, and the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals.

We are looking forward to meeting you at this important discussion about making transition minerals truly beneficial for low- and middle-income countries!

When? 11 November , 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Azerbaijan time

Where? Side event Room 4

Language: English

Co-organised by PWYP, IRMA and ResponsibleSteel, this side event will gather diverse actors working to advance responsible environmental, social, and economic practices across transition mineral supply chains, as demands escalate to meet the energy transition and Paris Agreement targets.

Speakers from civil society, including Anabella Rosemberg from CAN-I and Adam Anthony from PWYP Tanzania, will address the national and regional policies needed to support value addition and benefit sharing in the sector, and will discuss the global barriers to achieving this in a way that respects human and Indigenous rights and protects the environment. The event will feature speakers from PWYP, IRMA, ResponsibleSteel, and the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals.

With:

– Adam Anthony, Executive Director, HakiRasilimali and Chair, PWYP Africa Steering Committee

– Anabella Rosemberg, Senior Advisor on Just Transition, CAN-International

– Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director-General for Energy of the European Commission, Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s Critical Energy Transition

– Kristi Disney Bruckner, Law & Policy Director, IRMA

– Annie Heaton, CEO, Responsible Steel (TBC)

And more to come.