COP27: Ensuring Africa's rich, critical minerals endowment crucial to global energy transition is leveraged to promote SDG7 on the continent

The Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) will host an event together with IEA at the Africa Pavilion during COP27 on the topic “Ensuring Africa´s rich, critical minerals endowment crucial to global energy transition is leveraged to promote SDG7 on the continent”.

The event on 15 November at 19:00-20:00 (GMT+2) will underline the link between global and local energy transition in Africa, elucidate Africa´s rich endowment in minerals critical to global energy transition and explore ways in which the income from critical mineral exported globally from Africa can be ring-fenced or used for the pursuance of SDG7 in Africa.