Nick Bainton and Emilka Skrzypek’s article was published in The Conversation. You can read it here: https://theconversation.com/pacific-nations-are-extraordinarily-rich-in-critical-minerals-but-mining-them-may-take-a-terrible-toll-187172 For centuries, the Pacific Islands rich natural resources have been raided by mining interests with little to show for it. At the last Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Suva, Fiji in July, Pacific leaders endorsed the 2050 Strategy… Read More »Read about our research in The Conversation

The JTPac project report, The Justice Dimensions of Extracting Energy Transition Metals from the Pacific, has been published by the British Academy The report uses results from the Just Transitions and the Pacific project to address the central dilemmas of the ‘energy transition-extractives nexus’, namely: as energy transitions drive global demand for ETMs, how do we… Read More »JTPac project report published by the British Academy

In the last week of June, JTPac’s Nick Bainton, Emilka Skrzypek and John Burton travelled to Pouembout in New Caledonia to take part in a workshop organised by the Pacific Centre for Social Responsibility and Natural Resources (PACSEN). The workshop brought together researchers from New Caledonia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Australia in a series… Read More »The Pacific Centre for Social Responsibility and Natural Resources workshop

Emilka Skrzypek and Nick Bainton convened a panel titled Dealing with Double Exposure: Global Energy Transitions, Climate Change and Resource Extraction in the Pacific at the European Society for Oceanists’ conference in Ajaccio, Corsica, 2-6 June 2022. The Pacific is at the frontline of a ‘double exposure’ to climate change and the consequences of economic… Read More »ESfO panel on Just Transitions and the Pacific – 4 June 2022

Commodity supply chains Energy transition metals (ETM) supply chains are instrumental in shaping ways in which costs and benefits of ETM extraction are distributed and how justice issues converge in the global ETM markets. We tested the extent to which it is possible to trace the trajectory of an ETM from a specific region, in… Read More »New project output: commodity flow analysis – nickel in New Caledonia