Supporting Stakeholder Engagement on Natural Resource Extraction

Concurrent urgent calls to decarbonize energy and transportation systems are driving major new mining developments, in particular, deeper into the developing regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia, with projects focused on extracting a group of minerals seen as critical to the energy transition. In addition, oil and gas companies are now highly motivated to extract as much oil and natural gas as possible -as quickly as possible- in order to avoid the possibility of stranded assets. Taken together with the infrastructure needed to process and transport minerals and fossil fuels, the potential impacts to ecosystems and people are enormous. Marsh Institute Researchers John Rogan (Geography) and Denise Humphreys Bebbington (Sustainability and Social Justice) received funding from the Ford Foundation to strengthen and expand Extractives@Clark, a platform that supports collaborative learning and engagement across a diverse group of stakeholders working on natural resources extraction. The researchers will organize and host a series of meetings, lectures, and panel discussions, as well as a graduate student symposium, focused on natural resource extraction and energy development.

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