Here's how Africa can gain from energy shift minerals
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The Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Marine Affairs has published a preliminary mineral assessment report on 15 counties that shows Kenya has 970 minerals with the potential for further prospecting for exploration.
Earlier this year, United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres set up a Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals. If the panel is to heed his instructions, it will use this opportunity to insist that the burgeoning demand for Africa’s “green” minerals be used to right historical wrongs and avoid future mistakes.
Calls to triple investments in renewable energy have led to concerns about social and environmental impacts, as well as questions regarding the fair sharing of benefits linked to scaled-up investment in the production of batteries for electric cars, wind turbines and solar panels. African and other developing countries will provide a significant portion of the metals and minerals that will make possible the global pivot from fossil fuels.
