Critical minerals for the sustainable energy transition: a guidebook to support intergenerational action

The Guidebook maps out key challenges associated with sustainable use of critical energy minerals across their life cycle and provides actionable recommendations to stakeholders whose engagement is crucial to manage critical mineral resources responsibly. In particular, the Guidebook emphasizes the ways in which the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) and United Nations Resource Management System (UNRMS) could enable a common approach to critical minerals management at a time when multilateral collaboration is urgently needed, including on a number of novel aspects such as circular economy in the clean energy technologies sector and environmental regulation of deep-sea mining.