Resources

Resources provided here have been identified from external sources. These resources, while not exhaustive, seek to provide insight into emerging policy, research and analysis on green minerals, with a focus on Africa.

GREEN MINERALS STRATEGIES SELECTED RESEARCH REPORTS SELECTED INITIATIVES

Green minerals strategies

African Union | 18 Mar 2025

African Green Minerals Strategy

The African Green Mineral Strategy has been developed to supplement existing mineral development frameworks, such as the African Mining Vision, with a specific focus on the opportunities and risks for Africa unfolding from the universal challenge of climate change and growth of new industries for a low-carbon future.

African Union | 18 Mar 2025

African Green Minerals Strategy

The government of Tanzania | 2 Jul 2024

The Tanzania critical and strategic minerals strategy

African Development Bank | 1 Jul 2024

Approach paper towards preparation of an African green minerals strategy

Government of Namibia | 1 Dec 2023

Namibia - EU Strategic Partnership on Raw Materials

Selected research reports

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development | 10 Apr 2025

Background Note: The Lobito Corridor

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development | 10 Apr 2025

Background Note: The Lobito Corridor

Oxford Economics | 9 Apr 2025

The Green Leap: The Politics of Critical Minerals in Africa

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | 9 Apr 2025

How to Advance US-Africa Critical Minerals Partnerships in Mining and Geological Sciences

Natural Resource Governance Institute | 31 Mar 2025

Refining the Strategy: The Economics of Lithium Value Addition in Ghana

Selected initiatives

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Mapping Africa's Green Mineral Partnerships

This interactive map and its accompanying report illustrate bilateral and multilateral agreements made with African countries regarding access to their green or critical minerals. These minerals, essential for the energy transition, have become a key focus of geopolitical strategies worldwide in recent years. APRI conducted an extensive online search using multiple search engines and databases. The search encompassed G20 and BRICS+ member states, as well as states with significant mining sectors, such as Chile, Cuba and Venezuela.

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Trade in Critical Minerals Database

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the WTO Secretariat have jointly launched a database on trade in critical minerals to enhance transparency regarding these minerals and to support the clean energy transition. The database provides information on trade flows, allows visualisations of trade networks and specialisation patterns and compiles data on tariffs and other trade policies for 250 critical minerals and related products across value chains.

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Council for Critical Minerals Development in the Global South

The organisation is a collaborative association between Sustainable Energy For All (SEforAll), the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), and Swaniti Global with the aim of establishing a platform that encourages international and South-South cooperation on the development of critical minerals in the Global South to ensure an equitable energy transition. This platform supports collaboration among nations in developing industries that further industrialisation and socioeconomic development goals.

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The Critical Minerals Africa Group

The Critical Minerals Africa Group (CMAG) was established on the 7th of November 2024 by various stakeholders in the critical minerals industry, with the purpose of enhancing the relationships between Africa and global markets and empowering African companies in the critical mineral sector. They aim to facilitate the development of robust and diverse critical mineral supply chains that benefit the communities in which critical minerals are extracted and accelerate development by integrating value-adding operations.

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Pamoja Critical Minerals Alliance

The Pamoja Critical Minerals Alliance (PCMA) is a membership-driven initiative led by the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) for various organisations and communities that are interested in tracking the implications of increased extraction of critical minerals and other value-addition activities impacting communities and nature. Through mobilisation and the promotion of African communities and organisations, the PMCA aims to prevent a Green Curse from materialising across the continent.

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Fair Cobalt Alliance

The Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA) is a multi-stakeholder action platform that was established in 2020 with the ambition of mobilising resources across the cobalt supply chain to provide technical assistance and investment in order to accomplish the goal of a formal, equitable, and secure artisanal and small-scale mining cobalt mining sector. This initiative aims to transform the cobalt artisanal and small-scale mining industry to have a positive impact on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by addressing the underlying causes of child labour and dangerous operations at mining sites.

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Resilient Inclusive Supply Chain Enhancement Partnership (RISE)

The RISE Partnership is a global initiative that provides knowledge, technical assistance, and finance facilitation to (i) create an enabling business climate generating new opportunities for developing inclusive supply chains of clean energy products in targeted low- and middle-income countries, bringing value addition and benefits of diversified economies; and (ii) support global decarbonization efforts through more diversified and inclusive supply chains of clean energy products for the global economy.

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African Minerals Strategy Group

The African Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) is an intergovernmental organisation who primary objective is to facilitate international cooperation in the minerals and mining industry. This organisation seeks to advance exploration, extraction, production, local beneficiation, and commercialisation to ensure the sustainable, transparent, and reliable supply of critical minerals.

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Mineral Security Partnership

The MSP is a collaboration of 13 countries and the EU to catalyze public and private investment in responsible critical minerals supply chains globally. MSP partners include Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union (represented by the European Commission).

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ResourceTrade.Earth

ResourcTrade.Earth has been developed by Chatham House to enable users to explore the fast-evolving dynamics of international trade in natural resources, the sustainability implications of such trade, and the related interdependencies that emerge between importing and exporting countries and regions. The trade data on this site are from the Chatham House Resource Trade Database (CHRTD). The CHRTD is a repository of bilateral trade in natural resources between more than 200 countries and territories.

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Critical Minerals Policy Tracker

The IEA’s new Critical Minerals Policy Tracker presents nearly 200 policies and regulations from 25 countries and regions worldwide. These policies address many different goals, including ensuring supply reliability and resilience, promoting exploration, production and innovation and encouraging sustainable and responsible practices.

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AfricaMaVal

AfricaMaVal is a 42-month project gathering 18 partners from 11 countries. It is coordinated by BRGM, the French Geological Survey. The consortium gathers African and European experienced organisations, associations, and networks deeply anchored and involved in the raw material domain with specific expertise, and knowledge.

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Resource Contracts

Resource Contracts is a repository of publicly available oil, gas, and mining contracts in machine-readable, searchable, open-data format. Contracts are tagged to highlight each contract's key financial, social, environmental, operational and legal terms. Some contracts include plain language summaries of these key clauses to facilitate understanding of the terms. Resource Contracts promotes greater of investments in the extractive industries, and facilitates a better understanding of the contracts that govern them. The repository is managed by the Natural Resource Governance Institute.