Community-Centered Approaches to Green Mineral Mining: A Conversation with Pact's Roger-Mark De Souza [Audio]
Publisher: New Security Beat
Author(s): Roger-Mark De Souza
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Extractive Resources, Gender, Governance, Livelihoods
According to the World Bank, building enough renewable energy infrastructure to keep global warming below 2C will require more than 3 billion tons of minerals. Reducing emissions quickly is crucial to minimizing risk for the world’s most climate-vulnerable communities, many of whom are on the front lines of a crisis they did not create. But unless we are careful, ramping up mining in order to decarbonize could actually worsen inequity and injustice. “How do we do this quickly, safely, and sustainably, in ways that benefit all?” asks Lauren Risi, Director of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program in this week’s New Security Broadcast.