Critical Minerals: Who Pays the Price? | United Nations

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The phone in your hand runs on minerals most people can't name - but who benefits from extracting them, and who pays the price?

Kaveh Madani, Director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), explains what critical minerals are, why supply chain disruptions carry major economic and security consequences, and how the absence of global governance risks creating new "sacrifice zones" - communities left with pollution and human rights violations while the benefits flow elsewhere.

From extraction to electronic waste, he sets out what governments, companies and consumers can each do to make these supply chains fairer and more transparent.

#NaturalResources #ConflictMinerals #CriticalMinerals #DRC #SecurityCouncil #Peacebuilding #unitednations

0:00 The minerals behind our technology
0:09 What are critical minerals?
0:20 Why are they "critical"?
0:38 Who gains — and who pays
1:01 The governance gap and "sacrifice zones"
1:21 What governments and consumers can do
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Policy & Governance
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UN, United Nations, UNGA
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