🇨🇱 El litio es uno de los minerales estratégicos para la transición energética global. Debido a su rol en la transición hacia economías menos dependientes de los combustibles fósiles, es parte de la discusión política en Chile, país que enfrenta desafíos para mejorar la gestión de la renta minera, la transparencia en el uso del recursos, así como una mayor participación estatal. 🔎 Para más información, lee el reporte desarrollado por Rafael Poveda para NRGI 'Ingresos Fiscales por litio en Chile': https://lnkd.in/eTEQR4J9
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NRGI supports informed, inclusive decision-making about natural resources and the energy transition. We partner with reformers in government and civil society to design and implement just policies based on evidence and the priorities of citizens in resource-rich developing countries. We seek to address power imbalances, both nationally and globally. Our approach accounts for political realities, and advances equity in voice, influence and access to information. We envision a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. NRGI exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the wellbeing of people in resource-rich countries, and of the planet.
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As the energy transition accelerates, national oil companies face financial risks. A quarter of their $1.8 trillion investment may be unprofitable if global oil demand drops. Learn more in NRGI’s report: https://lnkd.in/eXdixvZJ
Riskier Bets, Smaller Pockets: How National Oil Companies Are Spending Public Money Amid the Energy Transition | Natural Resource Governance Institute
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At the OECD - OCDE Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains this week, NRGI’s Susannah Fitzgerald underscored the pivotal role of effective regulation in governance, outlining critical challenges to its success: 🛑 Poor implementation 💰 Insufficient resourcing 🤝 Undue influence on policymaking Susannah stressed: “Our primary focus should always be on robustly worded, well-enforced regulation. Certification schemes, while potentially beneficial, require comprehensive governance and adequate stakeholder representation.” Crucially, she highlighted the necessity of equal representation and governance for rights holders and civil society organizations, affirming their role as essential co-creators of processes. Concluding, she underscored the critical importance of collaboration in driving the energy transition: “At a moment where the need for a just energy transition throws fresh scrutiny on the mining sector, meaningful collaboration is crucial. Despite disagreements and difficult conversations, it's better than the alternative of the industry marking its own homework.” Learn more about transition minerals and their governance: https://lnkd.in/eHwau3mV
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In less than two weeks Mexicans will vote for their next president. The outgoing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has made energy sovereignty and self-sufficiency one of the sustained themes of his presidency. AMLO has focused his energy aspirations on Pemex, the world’s most indebted national oil company. What #Mexico’s next president does with Pemex will determine the country’s energy and fiscal future amid a rapidly changing outlook for fossil fuels. More from NRGI's Maria Fernanda Ballesteros and Andrea Furnaro:
As Mexico Votes, State Oil Company Pemex Needs a New Direction | Natural Resource Governance Institute
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Today at the opening panel of the 2024 OECD - OCDE Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains, NRGI's Erica Westenberg shared valuable insights on mineral partnership agreements and the importance of transparency in transition mineral supply chains. Here are some key takeaways: 🔍 NRGI found that most announced mineral partnership agreements have no publicly available information about their contents.. 🌐 To address this, NRGI is making such information more accessible. This includes uploading public details of partnership agreements onto resourcecontracts.org, a portal housing over 3000 extractive contracts and related documents. 🗣 By having a seat at the table, rights holders and civil society can hold mining projects accountable o standards set by organizations like the OECD and the UN, and expose instances of corruption. 💡 Innovative approaches are essential to avoid replicating exploitative models of the past. The devastating impacts of mining, including corruption, human rights abuses, and pollution, must be addressed. To learn more about these types of mineral partnerships, read NRGI's post: https://lnkd.in/ezyh2bkk
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As the world moves toward a future beyond oil and gas, petroleum assets are increasingly change hands, with different kinds of companies replacing others. This transition presents both opportunities and risks for producer countries. In this evolving scenario, governments play a key role in regulating asset transfers, maintaining high transparency standards, and safeguarding the environment and communities. Explore the complexities of responsible change in this briefing by NRGI's Nicola Woodroffe: https://lnkd.in/dMeGaRKp
Responsible Change: How Governments Can Address Environmental, Social and Governance Challenges When Petroleum Assets Change Hands | Natural Resource Governance Institute
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NRGI's Erica Westenberg will speak at the opening panel of the 2024 OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains this week. 📅 Date: 22 May 2024 🕙 Time: 10:00AM CEST Join in person or register in advance for online access: https://lnkd.in/e9S9SEFU
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Countries like Nigeria, Senegal, and Colombia are exploring the future role of gas in domestic power supply. This new primer from NRGI explores the opportunities and challenges facing such countries as they navigate their energy futures. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/exPaQdpD
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A pleasure to participate in this event on "Cooperating to enable Africa's energy access" organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations. Thanks to Maddalena Procopio, Dr Carole Nakhle and Theo Acheampong for the invitation and facilitation. Great hearing a variety of views and good summary of the discussion in the post below. In my intervention I focused on the role of civil society organization (CSOs), in particular: ➡ CSOs, particularly African national CSOs and those working at the local level, have a key role in broadening out public debate on issues of energy access and just energy transition, and ensuring a sufficient connection between international cooperation and intended beneficiaries. ➡ CSOs can be a partner - and source of accountability - for governments, companies, and international partners on key just energy transition issues including increasing transition finance (like the Just Energy Transition Partnership in Senegal: https://lnkd.in/eT2M9Y_t AIDA DIOP), prudence in defining the role of gas in the energy transition (for example in Nigeria: https://lnkd.in/enPhBEsV Tengi George-Ikoli), reducing emissions from the extractives sector (https://lnkd.in/eBF3EQua Papa Daouda A. DIENE), transition minerals governance (https://lnkd.in/e2Upk_Gj Nafi Chinery) and ensuring a people-centered approach across all areas of the energy transition (https://lnkd.in/eXDcmwp7 Ana Carolina González Espinosa). ➡ In order to play such a role, CSOs need support, including capacity development and financial support. They also need the "civic space", at the local, national, regional and international levels, to ensure they have a seat at the table in order to contribute.
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COOPERATING TO ENABLE AFRICA’S ENERGY ACCESS AND GREEN INDUSTRIES Yesterday, on the sidelines of the @Invest in Africa Energy event in Paris organised by Energy Capital & Power, the European Council on Foreign Relations hosted a closed-door session with a great line-up of participants from the private sector, policymaking, industry, and research community to discuss #cooperation for the #energytransition and #industrialisation in Africa. I moderated the second session on collaborations to improve African value addition in critical raw materials (CRMs) and industrialisation. Here is a quick summary as captured by my colleague Maddalena Procopio, with additional notes from me: ✅ Many challenges are shared across the oil and gas, mining, and nascent renewable energy industries on the continent: these include regulatory, policy, and especially financial risks. There is a need for more open dialogue between the private and public sectors and coherent strategies able to connect the dots along value chains, especially when it comes to critical raw materials. ✅ While some cooperation initiatives are underway, it is still limited between the public and private sectors, between Africans and Europeans, and among international players. ✅ The priority area for many Africans is the need to focus on #electricity provision as a foundation. Without robust electricity systems [encompassing generation, transmission and distribution], everything else, including the processing of minerals into value-added products on the continent, would be hindered, social development would lag and attracting investors would become difficult. A Pan-African energy compact with clear benchmarks and a financing action plan on how to lift 600 million Africans without access to electricity should be a priority. This should not only be premised on renewables but more natural gas [need to address gas commercialisation issues] to provide base load power as various country and regional needs require. ✅ Financing is key, whether it is in energy provision or building factories to process CRMs on the continent. Innovative policies are needed to transform energy and CRM project bankability and unlock growth. This requires cooperation among private financiers, international partners and African governments [using their Sovereign Wealth Funds, Sovereign Guarantees and other state finance vehicles] in this regard. ✅ One of the highlights of the trip was reuniting with friends and colleagues, including Dr Carole Nakhle, NJ Ayuk JD, MBA., Verner Ayukegba, Theodore MURPHY, Doris Edem Agbevivi, Veronica B., Ekpen J Omonbude, Frances-Yvonne Igweh and several others. Africa wants and must industrialise! We cannot afford to fail the future generation of Africans.✊ #IAE2024 #energytransition #cooperation #AfricaEurope #instusrilisation #CRMs
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🌍 Applications for the 2024 AFREIKH Summer School on the governance of extractives industries in Anglophone Africa, organized by the Africa Centre for Energy Policy and the Natural Resource Governance Institute, are open. This intensive one-week program aims to bridge knowledge gaps in Africa’s energy and extractive sectors to enhance governance. Participants will engage with key stakeholders to address critical issues and challenges while navigating the energy transition. 📅 Dates: 22-29 August 2024 📍 Location: Accra, Ghana 💼 Fee: $2,500 (includes training, accommodation, meals) 🎓 Limited scholarships available 🗓 Application deadline: June 7, 2024 🔗 Apply here: acep.africa/summer-school
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