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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>The sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly is taking place from February 26 to March 1 in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference “sets the global environmental agenda, provides overarching policy guidance, and defines policy responses to address emerging environmental challenges,” according to the UN.<\/b><\/p>\n

African officials are advocating for tighter regulations on the extraction of minerals and metals required for the shift to clean energy, citing concerns about the “injustices and extractivism” of fossil fuel operations.<\/p>\n

A resolution for structural reforms to enhance the fair distribution of benefits from extraction, supported by a group primarily composed of African nations such as Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Chad, was introduced at the UN environmental assembly in Nairobi on Wednesday. The proposal emphasized the need for sustainable use of transitional minerals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis resolution is crucial for African countries, the environment and the future of our population,\u201d Jean Marie Bope, a delegate from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which supported the resolution, was quoted as saying by the media.<\/p>\n

As the world moves away from fossil fuels, the demand for transitional minerals and metals needed to build solar power plants, wind farms, and electric vehicles, has been increasing. The UN Environment Programme estimates that billions of tonnes of transitional minerals would be needed in the next 30 years to meet climate targets. And Africa has significant deposits of these key minerals.<\/p>\n

African leaders continued by saying that the demand creates an opportunity for mineral-rich African countries that has been so far untapped. The vital transitional minerals are difficult to process in many of the continent’s nations, so the raw materials are often shipped and processed elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur experience of exporting them raw has shown us that there is no benefit for the continent in that,\u201d said Bope, as cited by the reports. \u201cAfrica\u2019s minerals are enough to power the clean energy transition, but we don\u2019t want to do things how we have done them in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some mineral-producing African countries have restricted exports of raw minerals to boost domestic processing, as they seek to capitalize on the economic growth and employment creation of the green minerals race. So, the leaders emphasized the importance of agreements that facilitate technological transfer, enhance local processing capacity, and improve labor skills for a fair transition.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the environmentalists backed the calls for benefit sharing. They supported the global shift to low-carbon technologies, but warned that the clean energy transition could exacerbate inequality in Africa’s fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to make sure that industrialization happens here and that we\u2019re not just serving another continent\u2019s industrialization plan,\u201d reportedly said Seble Samuel, head of Africa campaigns and advocacy at the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative. \u201cWe cannot afford to replicate the same injustices and extractivism that\u2019s happened with the fossil fuel economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

UNEP executive director Inger Andersen also urged governments and industry to employ sustainably sourced minerals in their clean energy transitions, and called on mineral-rich countries to enter into contractual arrangements that would safeguard them from \u201ccolonial models\u201d of resource and labor abuse.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the states supporting the resolution urged the UN to enhance scientific understanding of new practices like deep sea mining \u2014 the process of extracting essential minerals from the ocean floor \u2014 which environmentalists believe could pose a threat to marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe marine ecosystem is very sensitive, so it\u2019s extremely important to scrutinize this while it\u2019s still in the experimental phase, and understand its impacts,\u201d Bope concluded.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting that, according to the UN data*, the continent has the world’s largest natural reserves of uranium, platinum, diamonds, and cobalt, among many others:<\/p>\n

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These minerals are necessary to shift to clean energy systems. However, the “increased demand presents environmental, economic, geopolitical, and trade consequences for Africa,” according to the UN report.<\/p>\n

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