Critical Minerals, Sustainability, and the Energy Transition in the Global South: A Justice Perspective (Global Energy Law and Policy)

This book addresses the relationship between efficient management of critical minerals and sustainability in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa.Critical minerals are essential raw materials for the technologies that are pivotal in today's energy transition.However, critical mineral host states and communities face social, economic, ecological, political, technological, and governance injustices.The book contends that the criteria currently used in assessing criticality and critical mineral development do not fulfil the sustainable development ambitions of developing countries and that broader considerations must be taken into account to include the stakeholders involved as well as the spatial dimension of the critical mineral value chain.In particular, the book argues that the law must consider the broader context in which minerals become critical to particular processes.It positions this argument within the current context of climate change, the just energy transition, the