CSRM News

Global demand for energy transition metals to support a clean energy transition is increasing pressure to extract more terrestrial and seabed minerals and metals from the Pacific. So what is the risk of the Pacific becoming a sacrifice zone in the name of a global energy transition?

On Friday 29 July, Brumadinho justice campaigner Angélica Amanda da Silva Andrade delivered an unwearied address at The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute to talk about the social cost of tailings management.

A new information hub on mine closure planning and post-mining transition for local communities and other stakeholders has been launched by a team of researchers and staff from The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute.

Over the last 20 years, recognition of Indigenous peoples’ right to control, co-manage and benefit from resource development on their lands has increased, and one model of co-management currently attracting attention is Indigenous equity ownership of mining projects.

The Russia-Ukraine crisis is already a human catastrophe. And it could also prove disastrous for climate action by slowing the global energy transition.