Local Communities in the Just Transition - Episode 3 #EuropeOnTheMove
Channel: Green European Foundation
Date: 2024-04-09

“We resent being sacrificed so that others can maintain their resource-intensive way of life”.  

With these bold words, activist Catarina Scarrott, portrays the frustration of local communities living in the lithium-rich area Covas do Barroso (Portugal), where a British company have been developing plans to open a pit mine. 

Catarina Scarrott is part of the Associação Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso (UDCB) movement. To know more about the local resistance in this area, read the article published by the Green European Journal: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/covas-do-barroso-local-resistance-to-europes-lithium-race/.

About #EuropeOnTheMove:  

#SustainableMobility has become a buzzword. But its opportunities and challenges are complex and evolving. What modes of transport are truly sustainable? What implications does sustainable mobility hold for the different regions, sectors and actors of society, particularly in the South of Europe, a key region in the EU's #decarbonisation plans. 

GEF has asked experts and activists working on a myriad of topics, from #Cycling to #ElectricVehicles, from energy system transitions to critical minerals mining, and from metropolitan to ultra-peripheric regions, about their views on how the #GreenDeal should ensure a just mobility transition for all. 

This project is based on the Heinrich Böll Stiftung European Mobility Atlas and GEF Metals publication, and associated translations. 

#EuropeOnTheMove is a video-series produced by the Green European Foundation (GEF) with the support of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung EU Office.