Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cCountries and communities must benefit, first and most, from the resources in their own backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo more exploitation. No more plundering.\u201d<\/p>\n
China<\/p>\n
\u201cCountries have the sovereign right to independently choose the path of development and utilization of their natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colombia\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot allow this region once again to bear the environmental and social costs of extraction that colonialism taught us.\u201d<\/p>\n
DR Congo\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNatural resources can be the foundation of shared prosperity or the engine of predation. Everything depends on how they are governed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liberia<\/p>\n
\u201cA diamond can fund a classroom, or it can fuel a militia. A forest can sustain a community, or it can finance a war. Geology does not choose. Governance does.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pakistan<\/p>\n
\u201cThe strategic importance of natural resources is increasing as the world transitions towards clean energy, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and digital technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Somalia<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the security dimension is critical, the African perspective also highlights that minerals are a strategic asset for development, industrialization, and shared prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Key themes and priorities that emerged<\/p>\n
\u00a9 ILO\/Richard Lord
\n Workers at a mine in DR Congo shovel earth containing ores into crates.<\/p>\n
Was a plan of action agreed?<\/p>\n
No formal Security Council resolution (which carries legal weight), declaration or binding plan of action was adopted.<\/p>\n
However, the debate produced broad political convergence around the above priorities.<\/p>\n
The current Security Council president, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which hosted the meeting, proposed a Group of Friends on the Governance of Natural Resources as a possible follow-up mechanism.<\/p>\n
The Group would bring together \u201cinterested\u201d UN Member States, the United Nations, regional organizations, and international financial institutions, producing and consuming countries, responsible economic actors, and civil society.<\/p>\n
Its mission would be to \u201csustain permanent dialogue, share best practices, strengthen existing mechanisms, and formulate in a progressive and pragmatic manner proposals to better integrate natural resource-related issues into the work of the UN.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They are all essential as part of the global shift away from fossil fuels towards cleaner energy sources\u00a0\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-784246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}