Energy Transition
The Challenge: Supporting the global energy transition without harming forests/communities
Increased uptake of renewable energy and electric vehicles will quadruple the demand for critical minerals by 2040. Initial maps of the global energy transition minerals inventory indicate that 69% of Energy Transition Minerals (ETM) projects are located on IPLC lands. With global efforts to electrify transportation, building, and industry sectors accelerating, it is crucial to ensure this energy transition doesn’t come at the expense of forests and IPLC.
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Our Work: Ensuring that the energy transition has minimal impacts on vital ecosystems and Indigenous and local community lands
Earth Insight is combining geospatial analysis, risk mapping, political engagement, Indigenous and community capacity building, and strategic communications into a full-spectrum strategy to limit biofuels, bioenergy, and critical mineral threats to communities and biodiversity in key ecosystems.
Future Direction: Advancing policy change, political declarations, and rights-based outcomes
We believe that by providing key actors within civil society, media, finance, and policy sectors with critical information and powerful tools and momentum, we can advance policy change, political declarations (e.g. “no-go” zones for transition minerals extraction in tropical forests, Indigenous territories, and protected areas in KBAs), and rights-based outcomes, including revocation of concessions.
