
To be globally just and sustainable, the Critical Raw Materials Act must ensure effective social, environmental and governance safeguards and provide meaningful participation to local communities, Indigenous Peoples, and civil society in resource-rich countries.
This joint letter, signed by the EEB alongside movements, Indigenous Peoples, and Civil Society Organizations, particularly but not exclusively from resource-rich countries in the Global South, stress the urgent need for the EU to take a human-rights based approach to decarbonisation and ensure that all rights holders and stakeholders in resource-rich countries, not only governments and the private sector, are involved in the process in a full and meaningful way.
More specifically, though not approving of them, we ask the EU to ensure strategic projects and the sourcing of raw materials from resource-rich countries are done:
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