Session 1 - Opening session
May 22, 2024 | 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
May 22, 2024 | 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Description
Welcome remarks and keynote speeches followed by a High-level opening panel (45 minutes): Leveraging government-to-government partnerships to make critical transition minerals supply more responsible and resilient.
Demand for minerals that are critical to the world’s energy and digital transitions is set to grow rapidly. Governments are making sustained efforts to secure a reliable supply of transition minerals, including by establishing partnership agreements with mineral-producing countries to foster local value addition and a stable minerals supply. Successful international cooperation will be contingent on governments’ capacity to overcome barriers to investment and trade, including with mineral producing areas where corruption, security or other risks prevail lest such risks disrupt supply and compromise a just transition. This session will bring together voices from across the policymaking, business and civil society communities to explore how emerging government-to-government partnerships on these critical commodities can drive investment where it is needed while benefiting mining communities and enhancing the long-term resilience of supply in the process.
