Video: How do we square democratic rights with green industrial policies?
Seminar 3: How do we square democratic rights with green industrial policies?
To tackle the climate crisis, a transition from fossil fuels to renewables and the generalization of electrification are scientifically consensual policy options. However, the material needs of renewable energy-based energy systems (eg. solar panels), electromobility and energy storage (eg. batteries) require ever more mining of critical raw materials with severe environmental, social and economic impacts on local communities. Furthermore, the global energy transition is increasingly shaped by geopolitical competition. As strategic rivalry between the United States and China intensifies, securing access to critical raw materials has become a central policy concern. As access to mineral markets tightens, industrial policy has emerged across both mineral-producing and mineral-consuming states as a response to rising uncertainty, risk, and demands for economic sovereignty. The panelists in this seminar debate the tensions and contradictions that are arising over critical raw materials based on their research and different perspectives.
Participants:
- Jojo Nem Singh, University of Sussex and ERC project on Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals (https://miningfordevelopment.eu/)
- Henry Sanderson, Author of Volt Rush (https://www.henrysanderson.net/)
- Karin Buhmann, CBS and Project leader of Frontiers of Natural Resource and Sustainability Governance for a Just Green Transition (https://frontiers.cbs.dk/)
- Moderator: Lindsay Whitfield, Copenhagen Business School
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