About this session
This session will seek to identify a focused set of actionable cooperation opportunities that governments and other stakeholders could advance at bilateral, regional, plurilateral, or multilateral levels on trade in critical energy transition minerals. In particular, the discussion will explore opportunities for cooperation to navigate and reconcile the competing interests of supply security, development, and value addition and environmental and social sustainability.
Cooperation areas for discussion will include: technology and capacity building; producer–producer cooperation; regional corridors and value chains; transparency and information sharing; standards and traceability; and multilateral trade rules. These areas reflect preliminary cooperation gaps emerging from the ongoing work of the TESS–UNCTAD International Expert Group on trade and critical energy transition materials.
Framing Questions
Where are the most pressing gaps in international cooperation on trade and critical energy transition minerals, and which should be prioritized?
What concrete forms of cooperation could better reconcile supply security, value addition, and development, and environmental and social sustainability?
Which cooperation pathways can be advanced, through which avenues (e.g. bilateral, regional, or multilateral) and where are new approaches needed?
Participation
In person (by invitation)
