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Europe's Way to Securing Raw Materials - The Role of Trade Agreements and the Global Gateway for the EU's Green Transformation

8. October 2024 @ 10:00 - 12:00

As part of the Alternative Raw Materials Week from October 7-14, PowerShift organizes an introductory workshop on the nexus of trade and raw materials. You wonder what trade agreements have to do with the European energy transition? What are strategic raw material partnerships about, which gateway should be opened with Global Gateway and why do we have to be interested in this at all? Then Register now for this workshop at: Bettina Müller (bettina.mueller@power-shift.de) Space capacity is limited, so don't hesitate.

When? on Tuesday, 8 October, from 10.00-12.00

Where? House of Statistics, Room Otto, Otto-Braun-Str. 70-72, Berlin (the room details will be further specified)

What exactly? “Europe’s Way to Securing Raw Materials – The Role of Trade Agreements and Global Gateway for the EU’s Green Transformation”

The European Union is a low-resource region where, in addition, few of the raw materials still available are mined by comparison. The international competition for the minerals necessary for the energy transition and digitization is large and conflictual. That is why the European Commission is constantly working to improve the security of its own economies with lithium, copper, nickel and Co. To this end, it makes use of international agreements, such as trade and investment agreements, and has launched a 400 billion programme to support projects of the so-called green transformation worldwide: the Global Gateway Initiative. But the European addiction to raw materials is not without consequences, especially for people and nature in the mining areas, which are largely located in countries of the Global South. The workshop aims to provide an overview of the European Raw Materials Security Strategy and its trade instruments, as well as to raise awareness of their impact on communities in the Global South. Together, we want to explore whether, and if so, what alternatives exist to our "commodity addiction" driven by trade and investment agreements.

Participation is free of charge.

An overview of all events of the Alternative Raw Materials Week 2024 can be found here.

For more information on individual events, please visit the website of the AK Rohstoffe.