Lunch&Learn 2023 Session 1
Channel: Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung
Date: 2023-03-23

The EU and its raw material conquest strategies. What does trade policy have to do with energy transition? 

In order to drive the energy transition forwards lots of hardware is needed – from windmills to solar panels. These need raw materials that tend to come from outside the EU. We need to important them, which means there is no energy transition without trade policy. Together with Lucía Bárcena Menéndez from the Transnational Institute, we will try to show how the European Union is trying to get its hands on the raw materials we need for the energy transition. We will look at where the raw materials we need come from and what trade policy steps the EU is taking to secure access. Asking what it means when these accesses are secured and expanded, which system is strengthened and what the environmental and human rights policy consequences are.
Join us and let us dive into this topic together. After the expert input, there will be space for questions and discussion.