minerals

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.

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.

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.

The legal construct of mining conflicts

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

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.

Comparative Environmental Law

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

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.

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.

What do the EU’s new rules on corporate due diligence mean for Sámi rights and mining in Sweden?

SEI working paper / Learn how the new EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive could affect mining projects and Sámi rights in northern Sweden.