Two months ahead of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, unveiled, on Wednesday 11 September, the results of a panel of experts’ work on minerals essential to the energy transition, co-chaired by Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director General of DG ENER at the European Commission, and Ambassador Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko of South Africa.
The panel has put forward seven guiding principles and recommendations to promote fairness, equity and...