“How do we build fair, restricted, sustainable models of extraction in the face of the current climate emergency?” Sixth Policy Dialogues session
“How do we build fair, restricted, sustainable models of extraction in the face of the current climate emergency?” Sixth Policy Dialogues session
“How do we build fair, restricted, sustainable models of extraction in the face of the current climate emergency?” Sixth Policy Dialogues session
On Thursday, September 22th, the sixth Policy Dialogues (#PolicyDialogues) session took place, organised by the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center (UPF-BSM), entitled: “Nickel and the frontiers of the Green Transition.” Speaker Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik analysed extractivism in relation to the climate crisis, highlighting the destructive impacts ofthe green transition on certain environments and communities due to mining of nickel and other “transition minerals” that are commonly used in renewable energy infrastructure and green technologies.
The session, based on the report “The nickel nexus: mapping the frontiers of carbon neutrality” and accompanying policy brief, focused on the real-world consequences of mining frontiers that shift and expand in response to climate action, as the demand for “transition minerals” grows. Macmillen Voskoboynik explored the question, “which ecologies and communities will be impacted as the extracted landscape deepens and changes in response to changes in the political economy because of the climate crisis?”. As he explained, the objective of the research wasn’t specifically to analyse nickel, but to use this case study as a way of analysing the changing frontiers of extractivism in the green economy.
Access the report and policy brief here:
Report “The nickel nexus: mapping the frontiers of carbon neutrality”
Policy Brief "Nickel and the frontiers of carbon neutrality”