One focus for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil, this week is the minerals key for the global transition to renewable energy, powering everything from electric vehicles to storage systems for solar and wind. For the first time, so-called transition minerals are featured in a U.N. draft text, released on Friday.
Delegates are currently discussing whether to include transition minerals as a key sector under the Just Transition Work Program, or JTWP — the COP30 process for pushing forward a just energy transition — and what such wording would look like.
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Jesse Chase-Lubitz
Jesse Chase-Lubitz covers climate change and multilateral development banks for Devex. She previously worked at Nature Magazine, where she received a Pulitzer grant for an investigation into land reclamation. She has written for outlets such as Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and The Japan Times, among others. Jesse holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics.
