minerals Archives

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Expanding battery production enables fast technology response to mineral criticality

Journal article / Rapid EV battery growth enables fast shifts in technology, reducing mineral criticality risks and broadening future supply pathways.

17 March 2026 / About Supply chains and Transport

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The Nordic region: a geopolitical and environmental hotspot

Perspective / Geopolitics and sustainability are boiling up together, and one of the world's most calm and stable regions, the Nordics, will be a hotspot.

27 January 2026 / About Climate policy and Geopolitics

Mining and minerals

One-SEI program / The ambition of this program is to contribute to a global shift to clean energy that does not transfer harmful extraction patterns.

2026 / About Fossil fuels

Knowledge gaps about mining impacts on Sami lands: a call for epistemic justice in European minerals extraction

Journal article / This article examines the gap between environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for new mines in Sweden and actual impacts experienced by the Indigenous Sámi.

5 September 2025 / About Fossil fuels, Land use, Pollution and Wellbeing

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The legal construct of mining conflicts

Journal article / This article examines common legal paradigms and their effects on mediating mining conflicts.

12 August 2025 / About Public policy

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Addressing the gap in the UN’s SDG indicators: towards a socially equitable and environmentally responsible energy transition in the Argentine Altiplano

SEI brief / This policy brief discusses the importance of involving Indigenous Peoples in lithium mining decisions in the Argentine Altiplano.

8 August 2025 / About Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

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Comparative Environmental Law

Other publication / SEI researcher Sara K. Phillips contributed to this book about comparative theories and approaches in environmental law.

10 July 2025 / About Public policy

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Introducing the minerals-energy-food (MEF) complex

SEI report / The world faces unprecedented natural resource challenges. This paper introduces a new approach to analyzing resource governance in a fast-changing world.

1 July 2025 / About Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Renewables, Supply chains, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

New analysis: uncertain if the EU’s new due diligence rules help protect Sámi herding communities in Sweden from negative impacts of mining

Press release / A new SEI analysis shows that it's uncertain if EU’s due diligence rules will protect Sámi communities in Sweden from the negative effects of mining.

5 November 2024 / About Land use, Public policy, Renewables and Sustainable Development Goals