Preventing a “Green Resource Curse”: Opportunities and Risks of Mining in the Global Energy Transition

Jun 27, 2022 | Yiran Ning
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Is a “green resource curse” on its way? Kimberly Thompson, a Senior Advisor for Natural Resources and Conflict and the Industry Lead for Mining at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), says that the current status quo in the green mining industry risks “inadvertently creating the conditions” for it to happen.