Super-interesting article on Ghana's ambitions to move up the bauxite-aluminum value chain, how the global drive for clean energy materials is changing the picture, and what it all means for national policy.

Join Laury Haytayan & me in Natural Resource Governance Institute podcast in Arabic as we explore #energy transition in #MENA . We'll cover some fundamentals of #energy , #climate change; #Just_Transition , resource #governance , & FF phase out.
⏰Thu Mar28;10 GMT.
Register: resourcegovernance.org/ar/events/alas…
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Great to see our recent Natural Resource Governance Institute report featured in The Economist. Our research shows a crucial finding: National Oil Companies will likely invest $1.2 trillion in projects that will only break even if humanity fails to meet the International Energy Agency's Net Zero Scenario, betting public money…

El #litio es un recurso clave para la #TransiciónEnergética 🌎 En América Latina, las empresas estatales están en el centro de un debate: ¿cómo equilibrar su papel estratégico en la industrialización con las ganancias fiscales?
#AméricaLatina ⤵️

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🧵from MakeNigeriaBetter on multi-stakeholder workshop on emissions in Nigeria.

Thank you Gulf Intelligence for the space and trust! Happy #IWD2024 for all women experts in energy and other sectors 🎊

Thank you DailyAgent for this honour. I am grateful to be recognized among these 24 amazing women as a woman of impact leading change in Nigeria. Cc Natural Resource Governance Institute Nafi Chinery Ahmad Abdulsamad EiE Nigeria Publish What You Pay Juliet Alohan Ukanwosu

Lots of new information here for anticorruption actors!
- Insights from uses of the tool in 🇲🇳🇨🇴🇵🇭🇬🇳🇨🇱
- New modules on ASM, socioenvironmental harm in mining, and fossil fuel phaseout
- Lessons from successful anticorruption reforms in other sectors

This International Women's Day, we emphasize the crucial role of inclusion by exploring how women's voices and experiences shape the global pursuit of a just energy transition.

More from AnaCarolinaGonzálezE & in this NRGI post: resourcegovernance.org/articles/margi…

#IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay

Following the energy transition in Latin America?

🇨🇴 Register for this event featuring NRGI's Juliana Peña Niño, happening this Wednesday.

Bay Area folks, please join Ernest Scheyder and me at Pegasus Bookstores in Berkeley on February 26 for a discussion about his new book The War Below on mining and the renewable energy transition

African nations hold some of the world’s biggest oil/gas 🛢️discoveries in decades, yet they've struggled to benefit from the finds. A look across the continent shows the path isn't easy. A thread 🧵

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Thrilled to see this new project take off, bridging investigative journalism & policy research, and to work with John Heathershaw R Soares de Oliveira Tena Prelec and other top thinkers on the issue of corruption's many professional helpers.

State-investor extractives contract transparency has been a hard fought win . Now it’s time to shed light on state-state critical minerals deals. Details are slim, commitments vague, benefits unclear. Natural Resource Governance Institute is disclosing what we found on ResourceContracts.org

'Energy transition debate is complicated in Africa. Poverty (incl. energy poverty), unemployment, development needs mean people don't trust narratives, especially as extractive companies haven’t met commitments around, e.g., contract transparency.' - Nafi Chinery @ #MiningIndaba

#COP28UAE Please do join us for this upcoming discussion. Promise it will be a good one 🙌🏽

As leaders meet at #AfricaMiningIndaba , state-state mining partnerships take center stage. But amid the buzz, questions linger about their transparency & true benefits.

NRGI’s Susannah Fitzgerald, Phesheya & Thomas Scurfield explore the complexities ⤵️ resourcegovernance.org/articles/deals…

#Transitionminerals are a real opportunity for #Africa 's development. But they are also risky.

At #MI24 , CSOs will engage in key discussions to shape the future of mining.

Have at look at what we want: pwyp.org/mining-indaba-…

💰Enjoyed talking about Africa's mining #tax future at #MiningIndaba2024 this morning.

Many thanks ALSF's Oghor Okhai-Akhigbe & fellow panelists African Development Bank Group's Vanessa Ushie, Zambia Revenue Authority's Richard Kapasa, Tax Justice Network Africa's Isaac Agyiri and ISLP ZPouga.

Are you are this year’s #miningIndaba in #CapeTown see detail below and join me & colleague experts at our sessions