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We Can’t Protect Nature Without Fighting Mining-Sector Corruption (National Resource Governance Institute, October 2024)

The Siren Song - UN Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals Report Sings About Advancing Indigenous Peoples' Rights, but the Panel Retains Colonial Aspects Regarding Indigenous Lands (Cultural Survival, September 2024)

The Original Guardians of Nature Are Doing Their Part. Are the Rest of Us? (PBS, August 2024)

The green transition will make things worse for the Indigenous world (Grist, July 2024)

Indigenous Leaders Identify Opportunities for Indigenous Advocacy at OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains (Cultural Survival, July 2024)

Batteries and Environmental Justice (Earthworks, July 2024)

Restoring Nature Is Our Only Climate Solution (Resilience, July 2024)

Battery Circularity: The Key to an Ethical and Sustainable EV Transition (Earthworks, June 2024)

Reclaiming Sovereignty Through Salt and in Spite of Extraction: A Journey to Ayllu Yaribay (Cultural Survival, June 2024)

How Indigenous and Quilombola Communities of Araçuaí, Brazil Are Fighting for their Rights in the Energy Transition (Cultural Survival, May 2024)

A Plea for Sustainable Mining Amid the Clean-Energy Rush for Minerals (Newsweek, May 2024)

Westwin Resistance: Indigenous Land Defenders Fighting for their Future in Oklahoma (Cultural Survival, May 2024)

Indigenous Peoples, Biodiversity, and the Responsibilities of Financial Institutions (Cultural Survival, May 2024)

Indigenous lands feel cruel bite of green energy  transition (Climate Home News, April 2024)

Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Self-Determination (Cultural Survival, April 2024)

New FPIC guide designed to help protect Indigenous rights as mineral mining booms (Mongabay, April 2024)

IPLC: The acronym that is keeping Indigenous advocates up at night (Grist, March 2024)

This year’s ranking of EV carmakers from most to least ‘clean’: Report (Mongabay, March 2024)

Managing the environmental risks of minerals and metals mining in the low-carbon transition: updates from UNEA-6 (The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, March 2024)

‘On stolen land’: Tribes fight clean-energy projects backed by Biden (The Washington Post, March 2024)

Empowering Indigenous Voices Might be the Key to a Successful Green Energy Transition (Triple Pundit, February 2024)

Limiting environmental damage, human rights abuses and Indigenous Peoples’ rights violations: Civil society guidelines for the implementation of the EU Critical Raw Materials Regulation (European Environmental Bureau - EEB, February 2024)

The perils of extracting limestone in Nepal's Indigenous Chepang communities (Global Voices, February 2024)

Indonesia turns traditional Indigenous land into nickel industrial zone (Clean Energy Frontier, February 2024)

In South Dakota’s Black Hills, A Lithium Boom Promises More of the Same from Mining Industry (Earthisland, January 2024)

Demand for minerals sparks fear of mining abuses on Indigenous peoples' lands AND Part 2 (NPR, January 2024)

Long after Indigenous activists flee Russia, they continue to face government pressure to remain silent (The Conversation, January 2024)

'They destroyed our trees': Women say their farms were seized to support Indonesia's electric vehicle boom (CNN)

Letter to COP28 Delegates from Indigenous Leaders & Allies: Ensure Indigenous Peoples' Rights Are Secured in the "Green" Transition (Cultural Survival, December 2023)

Mining Industry Seeks to Define One Global Standard for Ethical Practices (WSJ, November 2023)

'Green' Multinationals Exposed: How the Energy Transition is Being Hijacked by Corporate Interests (Corpwatch, November 2023)

Indigenous Leaders Recommend Investor Action to Secure Indigenous Rights in the Energy Transition (First Peoples Worldwide, November 2023)

NT Indigenous leaders call for moratorium on new mines until government starts Redbank Mine rehabilitation (Australian Broadcasting Company, November 2023)

Lithium mine overexploitation to create more electric vehicles is destroying the Tibetan Plateau (Business Insider, November 2023)

The World’s Quest for a Green Transition Is Causing a New Wave of Extractivism in Indigenous Territories (Imapkter, June 2023)

Over a third of conflicts over development projects affect Indigenous people: Study (Mongabay, June 2023)

Fights for Climate, Labor and Indigenous Rights Converge at Auto Supply Chains (Truthout, May 2023)

Civil society declaration on clean energy and mining for COP 26, signed by 175 organizations (October 2021) 

Joining Together for a Just Transition: Indigenous Leadership in Emerging Green Economies (Cultural Survival Quarterly, March 2022) 

Automakers have no unique policy to consider Indigenous Peoples’ rights despite U.S. push to accelerate electric vehicle production (First Peoples Worldwide, December 2021) 


Reducing new mining for electric vehicle battery metals: responsible sourcing through demand reduction strategies and recycling (University of Technology, Sydney and Earthworks, April 2021) 

Responsible Minerals Sourcing for Renewable Energy (University of Technology, Sydney and Earthworks, April 2019) 

Transition Minerals Tracker: Global analysis of human rights in the energy transition (BHRRC, May 2022) 

‘Like putting a lithium mine on Arlington cemetery’: the fight to save sacred land in Nevada (The Guardian, December 2021, short film and article) 


Opinion:  Our ancestors’ burial site is no place for a mine Gary McKinney (Reno Gazette-Journal, March 2022) 


Lithium extraction in Argentina: a case study on the social and environmental impacts (FARN, May 2019) 

Indigenous peoples’ rights to natural resources in Argentina:  the challenges of impact assessment, consent and fair and equitable benefit-sharing in cases of lithium mining (The International Journal of Human Rights, 2020) 


Russian Indigenous communities are begging Tesla not to get its nickel from this major polluter (Grist, September 2020) 


Indigenous peoples call on Nornickel’s global partners to demand environmental action (The Barents Observer, March 2021) 

European electric car makers have a Russian nickel problem (Grist, April 2022) 


Indigenous Peoples’ Free, Prior and Informed Consent: A Priority for Human Rights Due Diligence (First Peoples Worldwide, April 2021) 

Free, Prior and Informed Consent Due Diligence Questionnaire (First Peoples Worldwide) 

Social Cost and Material Loss: The Dakota Access Pipeline (First Peoples Worldwide)

State Policies Promoting Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (National Conference of State Legislators)

Climate Smart Mining - Minerals For Climate Action (The World Bank)

The energy transition needs metals. But it needs social
awareness too
(The World Economic Forum)

What’s the Impact of Mining of Indigenous Peoples (Mining People International)

The Renewable Energy Transition Has Companies Looking Out To Sea (The Market)

Uncommon Ground: The Impact of Natural Resource Corruption on Indigenous Peoples (Brookings)

Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (Environmental Justice Atlas)

Investing in renewable energy to power a just transition: a practical guide for investors (Business & Human Rights Centre)