Critical Minerals Grab: From the DRC to Greenland

Depending on how they’re written, Critical Minerals Agreements can help countries meet shared climate, job creation and sustainable development goals — or they can accelerate exploitative models of resource extraction harmful to workers, communities and the environment.

The Trump administration’s pursuit of new Critical Minerals Agreements has been all about the latter. These deals are designed to grant well-connected billionaires and corporations privileged access to mining and processing operations across the globe, while running roughshod over Indigenous rights, national sovereignty, labor interests and climate justice.

Join this month’s Trade Justice Power Hour for a deep dive on how the critical minerals grab is playing out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and what this frontline case reveals about a broader global scramble for critical minerals, from Greenland to the Asia-Pacific. We’ll explore how these dynamics are shaped by trade policy, corporate power and geopolitics, and what it will take to build a more just and sustainable clean energy transition.

This month’s presenters include:

• —Maurice Carney, co-founder and executive director of the Friends of the Congo;

• —Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director at the Oakland Institute and co-author of Shafted: The Scramble for Critical Minerals in the DRC; and

• —Mira Rubio, coordinator of the California Trade Justice Coalition and director of CRITICAL MINERALS: Creating a Just & Sustainable Clean Energy Transition.

Please join us for this important discussion by RSVPing today.