Opening Session (OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains)

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 foster a resilient supply chain of transition minerals, including by establishing partnership agreements with mineral-producing countries to contribute to 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.

Speakers

• Erica Westenberg, Natural Resource Governance Institute
• Benjamin Gallezot, Délégation interministériel aux approvisionnements en minérais et metaux stratégiques, France
• Karim Dahou, OECD
• Matthew Chamberlain, The London Metal Exchange
• Renata Amaral, Ministry of Planning and Budget of Brazil