Breaking: #COP30 draft Just Transition Work Programme text has landed and minerals is in the document for the first time.

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A summary of a pre-COP dialogue on the Just Transition Work Programme show countries had broad discussions on the role of minerals. Countries called for greater governance & international cooperation to avoid exacerbating inequalities when mining for the energy transition.

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Developing countries want to discuss energy-transition minerals in negotiations on the implications of climate action (or "response measures" in UN jargon) and on ensuring a just energy transition (in the Just Transition Work Programme).

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One week to go until our #LCAW2025 event on how to make energy transition mineral production build shared prosperity for people & planet.

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The IEA's Critical Minerals Outlook out today emphasises the looming gap between copper demand and supply.

Copper is at the cornerstone of the energy transition. It's used to make EV motors, batteries, solar, cables for energy storage and distribution networks.

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Extraordinary intervention from COP28 president Sultan Al-Jaber on the last day of the L&D transitional committee meeting as the process is in stalemate.

Al-Jaber pleads with the committee to deliver recommendations to the Cop."If I don’t see a real and tangible result, it will not be acceptable."