Framework for Countries Evaluating Gas-to-Power Pathways

Betting big on natural gas comes with serious risks and tradeoffs, especially as the world moves away from fossil fuels. Hasty, ill-informed decisions could carry hidden costs for countries' development prospects, energy costs and security--and the climate.

Prospects for Mexico’s Lithium Sector After Reforms to the Mining Law

The urgency of promoting the energy transition and shifting towards decarbonization could be an opportunity for lithium-producing nations, such as Mexico, to earn revenue and accelerate their own domestic energy transitions.

Senegal and the G7: Five Questions about the Just Energy Transition Partnership

Senegal is primarily a future gas producer, whose production will be important for both domestic and export markets. While the opportunity for climate finance for Senegal presented by the JETP is to be welcomed, the motivations and potential content of such an agreement should be examined.

Europe's Gas Crunch, African Supply, and the Energy Transition

The current geopolitical climate and market dynamic presents African oil- and gas-producing states both with opportunities and with risks. The question is whether recent developments will influence African producer countries’ energy transition plans, and to what extent.

How Ghana Can Map Its Energy Transition Journey

Like the citizens of most developing countries, Ghanaians are increasingly affected by climate change, despite bearing little responsibility for the emissions that have caused it.

Sustainable Drive, Sustainable Supply: Priorities to Improve the Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain

The global transition from fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric vehicles will require hundreds of millions of batteries. How can these batteries’ supply chains spur economic opportunity in mineral-rich countries?

Framework for Countries Evaluating Gas-to-Power Pathways

Many developing countries with gas reserves have ambitious plans to use more of their gas domestically. The reason could be that they face power shortages, high energy costs, or the risk of losing out in the global energy transition. With such problems, some countries see extracting and burning more gas as the best—or even the only—option, at least in the short term. Different countries also have different starting positions: A middle-income, industrialized nation that sees gas mainly as a substitute for coal will not feel the same pressures and constraints as a low-income, fossil fuel-dependent country that wants to use gas to expand energy access and build a diversified economy for its young, fast-growing population.

The Resource Remix: Europe's Gas Crunch, African Supply, and the Energy Transition

In this third episode of NRGI's podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify, NRGI’s Silas Olan’g converses with Crystol Energy CEO Carole Nakhle and Theophilus Acheampong, economist and political risk analyst, and senior lecturer at the University of Dundee.

Mission Critical: Mining Governance for a Just Energy Transition

Meeting the Paris Agreement’s mitigation goals requires the deployment of low-carbon technologies that rely heavily on minerals. This makes the mining sector critical in the fight against climate change. This official Blue Zone side event will explore why resource governance and collaboration matter for a just transition. Speakers will include senior government representatives and civil society actors from major minerals-producing countries, including the DRC, as well as senior mining industry representatives.

No Time to Waste: Governing Cobalt Amid the Energy Transition

Cobalt is critical. Along with other critical minerals, cobalt has important economic uses and currently few viable substitutes, yet its supply faces a high risk of disruption. Manufacturers of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) want the metal. EV sales—and likewise, cobalt demand— could grow a lot more.

Sustainable Drive, Sustainable Supply: Priorities to Improve the Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain

The global transition from fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) will require hundreds of millions of batteries. The need for such massive production raises questions from the general public and critics alike about the sustainability of the battery supply chain, from mining impacts to vehicle carbon emissions.

How Ghana Can Map Its Energy Transition Journey

All countries have a vital role and interest in avoiding catastrophic climate impacts and safeguarding a livable planet. Like the citizens of most developing countries, Ghanaians are increasingly affected by climate change, despite bearing little responsibility for the emissions that have caused it.

RDC : débat lancé pour une transition énergétique juste en s’appuyant sur ses ressources en minerais

La transition mondiale vers les énergies propres pourrait constituer une opportunité pour la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) si le pays améliore la gouvernance de ses minerais comme le cobalt et le lithium, qui sont nécessaires pour la fabrication des batteries et véhicules électriques. La RDC ambitionne à la fois d’accroitre la production de ces minerais tout en tirant un maximum de revenus supplémentaires. Le pays entend aussi en transformer localement pour domestiquer une partie de la chaine de valeur des véhicules électriques et ainsi booster son développement. C’est pour le pays, le sens d’une transition juste, celle qui profite à la fois au pays et à la planète.

How JETPs Could Support Just Energy Transition Pathways in Africa

The just energy transition partnership (JETP) model opens the possibility of new and additional sources of finance for clean energy transition pathways for African countries (other than South Africa). In contrast to other regions of the world, these African countries need to plan for significant energy expansion – rather than only transition from fossil fuels – both economy-wide and, especially, for people without access to modern energy services. This unique feature raises important implications for just energy transition pathways across the continent, and also helps explain many points of contention and divergence surrounding African energy transition debates. To seize the potential offered by JETP agreements, African and international partners will need to converge around energy transition pathways that support expansion of energy supply and demand. And, for African gas producers, JETPs will also need offer solutions and alternatives that complement or replace gas within a defined retirement trajectory.

Civil society statement on transition minerals for COP27

Critical Minerals for the Energy Transition

Critical minerals will be fundamental to the energy transition. This official Blue Zone side event will highlight risks in critical mineral supply chains and their consequences for global decarbonization objectives. It aims to inspire global collaboration to develop new supply and make supply chains more resilient, diverse and responsible. The U.K. will host this event to promote the conversation about critical minerals and bring together a diverse range of perspectives.

Road to COP27: Positioning Africa’s Civil Society and Citizens on Climate Change, Energy Transition and Extractives

With COP27 on the horizon, NRGI, Econews Africa, Oxfam, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) and Tax Justice Network Africa convened a series of webinars, "East And Southern Africa Civil Society Organization Energy Transition Joint Capacity-Building and Road To COP27," drawing on various experts and experiences from the continent.

Triple Win: How Mining Can Benefit Africa’s Citizens, Their Environment and the Energy Transition

Africa’s mineral wealth is essential for the energy transition and for the hundreds of millions of people currently living in poverty in African mining countries. The world needs a mining triple win: policies that can benefit Africa’s citizens, their environment, and the energy transition. These policies need to work for all if they are to work for any of them.

Infographic: A Mining Triple Win

Risky Bet: National Oil Companies in the Energy Transition

This research compares the investment plans of national oil companies with the action needed to observe global climate change commitments. With the pace of energy transition uncertain, the authors of this report offer a warning to governments and state oil companies and urge them to re-examine their plans for a possible future without oil.

Africa’s Energy Transition Blueprint: Opportunities and Challenge

This session will present a blueprint for Africa’s energy transition, highlighting the opportunities and challenges to getting all African nations on the path to a new energy era. It will outline that Africa is the key to unlocking global Net Zero goals and that countries should not be blindsided by the fossil fuel industry. The objective of this session is to use key case studies to emphasise how Africa can successfully transit to a post-fossil future with solar power at the heart of the blueprint. The event will include a short presentation of Carbon Tracker’s latest report.

Strategic Minerals, Supply Chains and Governance Challenges in the Andes

The increased demand for minerals due to the energy transition should be an opportunity to improve mining governance in the Andean countries.

Boom or Bust: Will Mineral-Rich Countries Benefit from the Energy Transition?

The energy transition brings economic opportunities for mineral-rich countries—but corruption and governance risks could undermine the sector’s promise.

End the false promises : Why COP27 must be a true African COP

Mwisho wa hadaa; Kwa nini COP27 iwe kweli COP ya Afrika?

Ensuring Transition Mining Doesn't Replicate Abuses of the Past: Voices from Communities

From Oil and Gas to Wind: A Global Pathway for the Just Transition or a Danish Success Story? (COP27 Blue Zone Event)

Ensuring Africa’s Rich, Critical Minerals Endowment Crucial to Global Energy Transition is Leveraged to Promote SDG7 on the Continent

Threading the Needle: How JETPs Can Support Gas Producers

At the halfway point of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the role of fossil gas is both central to the climate conference’s outcome and still a hotly contested issue.

Just Energy Transition Partnerships for Gas-Producing Countries (Working Paper)

Minerales estratégicos, cadenas de suministro y desafíos de gobernanza en los Andes (ciclo de capacitación)

La necesidad de incrementar el uso de energía limpia, en un contexto de cambio climático, ha ocasionado una demanda creciente de minerales como el litio, el cobalto y el cobre, que tienen potencial para ser usados en tecnologías “verdes”. Simultáneamente, minerales contaminantes como el carbón enfrentan la posibilidad de convertirse en “activos varados”, al estar en declive sus precios y mercados globales.

Retos para la Gobernanza del litio en México (taller de capacitación)

El litio es uno de los minerales considerados estratégicos para la transición energética. Un elemento crítico para las tecnologías de almacenamiento de energía, por lo que se espera que su demanda continúe incrementándose en los próximos años de cara a la transición energética global y la electromovilidad.

Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) for gas-producing countries: Key findings from NRGI working paper

Nigeria's National Dialogue on Energy Transition

NRGI, in collaboration with the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and the BudgIt Foundation, hosted a national dialogue which brought together government officials, representatives from civil society organizations and other experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by the energy transition in Nigeria. Dialogue participants also discussed the recently launched National Energy Transition Plan.