Securing Justice: A Blueprint for the UK's Critical Minerals Strategy
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The UK’s new Critical Minerals Strategy comes at a crucial moment, marked by surging demand for key minerals, escalating geopolitical tensions, and the ongoing fragmentation of the global economy.
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Its aim is clear: to secure access to the materials needed for AI technologies, advanced military equipment, and the energy transition.
Yet by prioritising access and security over justice, the Strategy reinforces a trade and financial architecture that locks mineral-rich countries in the Global South into cycles of extraction, poverty, and ecological harm. This threatens to leave behind the very countries and communities where minerals are concentrated, all while failing to address the interlocking crises of inequality, climate, and affordability at home.
A just approach to critical minerals must break with this logic.
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