{"id":15337,"date":"2022-05-17T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15337"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:42:11","slug":"supplying-the-green-transition-must-be-fast-and-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/supplying-the-green-transition-must-be-fast-and-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Supplying the Green Transition Must Be Fast and Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__byline\"><time class=\"vl-divider\" datetime=\"2022-05-12T11:11Z\">May 12, 2022\u00a0<\/time><span class=\"byline\"><a class=\"track-event\" href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/columnist\/mary-robinson\" data-entity-type=\"member\" data-entity-id=\"3b4a920346f86f80112f8100\" data-language=\"english\" data-event-action=\"click\" data-entity-link-name=\"mary-robinson\" data-href-original=\"\/columnist\/mary-robinson\"><span class=\"listing__author author\">MARY ROBINSON<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__abs u-mt-se\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Achieving global climate goals will require a quantum leap in investments to secure sufficient supplies of key minerals needed for clean-energy technologies. But while these inputs can greatly accelerate emission-reduction efforts, protecting human rights when extracting them is an essential condition for climate justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__body article__body--commentary paywall english\" dir=\"ltr\" data-page-area=\"article-body\">\n<p data-line-id=\"b683b628744d4bd5957d8b26257e2d28\">DUBLIN \u2013 Can we avert climate catastrophe without unleashing a tsunami of human-rights abuses? Policymakers, investors, CEOs, and the boards of mining firms should be seeking \u2013 and delivering \u2013 positive answers to that question. Instead, the failure to engage with human-rights concerns could derail our\u00a0<a class=\"link link__internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/cop27-year-of-climate-accountability-by-mary-robinson-2022-02\" aria-controls=\"article-link-62063531a72fe630c0e0437b\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\">already faltering journey<\/a>\u00a0to a low-carbon world.<button class=\"comment__caller comment__caller--no-comment\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-label=\"Paragraph comment\" aria-controls=\"login_register\" aria-haspopup=\"true\"><\/button><\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"17cdc007ee1e40dc9776204fdc157243\">At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last November, governments and much of the investment community reaffirmed their commitment to the 2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris climate agreement<\/a>. Breaching that accord\u2019s global-warming threshold of 1.5\u00b0 Celsius above pre-industrial levels will expose current and future generations to the deadly effects of climate breakdown. To avoid a collision with Earth\u2019s ecological boundaries, we need a warp-speed acceleration in the transition to a zero-carbon pathway, starting with halving carbon dioxide emissions this decade.<button class=\"comment__caller comment__caller--no-comment\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-label=\"Paragraph comment\" aria-controls=\"login_register\" aria-haspopup=\"true\"><\/button><\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"98792a5401ab401c9d289ce39c33927b\">Achieving that target will require a quantum leap in investments to secure sufficient supplies of so-called transition minerals. Clean-energy technologies such as solar plants, wind farms, and electric vehicles are mineral-intensive. Motors and turbines need nickel, chromium, manganese, and rare earths. New electricity networks require vast quantities of copper wire. Electric-vehicle batteries need lithium and nickel. The International Energy Agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions\/executive-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimates<\/a>\u00a0that reaching net-zero emissions by mid-century will require a six-fold increase in mineral inputs, and a 40-fold increase in lithium supply.<button class=\"comment__caller comment__caller--no-comment\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-label=\"Paragraph comment\" aria-controls=\"login_register\" aria-haspopup=\"true\"><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall paywall--base\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en-us\" data-walltype=\"regwall\" data-pa=\"\" data-page-area=\"wall\" data-page-subarea=\"regwall\">Read the rest of the article on the website of Project Syndicate<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en-us\" data-walltype=\"regwall\" data-pa=\"\" data-page-area=\"wall\" data-page-subarea=\"regwall\">https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/transition-minerals-respect-for-human-rights-by-mary-robinson-2022-05?barrier=accesspaylog<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, 2022\u00a0MARY ROBINSON Achieving global climate goals will require a quantum leap in investments to secure sufficient supplies of key minerals needed for clean-energy technologies. 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