2023-10-26
KIRUNA - This investigation sheds light on what lies beneath the EU’s ‘green mining’ ambitions, and offers a unique perspective on the continent’s quest for critical raw materials, such as lithium, nickel, copper and rare earth elements needed for the future.
Critical raw materials are essential for wind and solar installations, defence, as well as our phones and laptops. The demand for them will only rapidly increase, for there is no “climate neutrality” ahead without them. That is why Europe wants to revive its mining sector, in order to both meet its green targets and reduce its dependency on China and elsewhere.
This investigation sheds light on what lies beneath the EU’s ‘green mining’ ambitions, and offers a unique pan-European perspective on the continent’s quest for critical raw materials.
Photo credit: Alexia Barakou
Team members
Supported
€37.100, allocated on 23/05/2023ID
ENV1/2023/218Grant
ONLINE
- Russia: Europe imports €13 billion of ‘critical’ metals in sanctions blindspot, Investigate Europe, 24/10/2023
- Green transition, dirty business: Europe’s struggle to tear loose from Chinese minerals, Investigate Europe, 26/10/2023
- Mining for minerals is not a European business, Investigate Europe, 26/10/2023
- Zielona Zmiana, brudny biznes, frontstory.pl, 26/10/2023
- Needed for speed: European carmakers turn to mining to bypass China, Investigate Europe, 26/10/2023
- Bald wieder Bergbau vor der Haustür?: Europas Kampf gegen die Rohstoff-Abhängigkeit von China, Tages Spiegel, 26/10/2023
- Investigate Europe: с марта 2022 года европейские компании закупили металлы из России на 13,7 миллиарда долларов, Meduza, 26/10/2023,
- El negocio sucio tras la transición verde: la UE lucha contra su dependencia de los minerales chinos, infoLibre, 26/10/2023
- Écocides et paradis fiscaux: révélations sur les dérives du soutien européen à l'industrie minière, Disclose, 27/10/2023
- Empresas causantes de daños ecólogicos reciben millones de subvenciones "verdes" de la UE a la minería, infoLibre, 27/10/2023
- Europa pinta poco en el negocio de la nueva minería, Investigate Europe, 28/10/2023
COUNTRIES
- The EU27
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