GRIP-ARM Policy Paper Series
Climate change and geopolitical realignments are vital challenges in the 21st century. Both the climate crisis and emerging strategic competition especially between China and the United States are reshaping global trade, finance, and investments. The new international economic context has altered the political economy, national security, and industrial competitiveness of countries worldwide. Global and national efforts toward decarbonization have centred around the transformation of current energy systems from a carbon-intensive economy towards the worldwide adoption of clean energy technologies. However, laying the groundwork for an equitable and renewable energy system require multiple policies to be implemented across different scales. To achieve a just energy transition, important trade-offs articulated through policy choices need to be made.
GRIP-ARM Policy Paper Series builds on existing efforts of the ERC-funded research project Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals (GRIP-ARM). Its main objective is to produce policy-relevant knowledge based on state-of-the-art evidence about critical minerals, supply chains of clean energy technologies, industrial policies, and geopolitics. The policy papers solicited in the series are not meant to simplify and resolve complex policy questions. Instead, its aim is to interrogate the various policy options, unpack the trade-offs involved when decision-makers choose specific policy designs, and to broaden the debate on critical minerals and clean energy transition beyond geopolitical, security, and narrow cost-benefit analysis perspectives.
The range of topics covered in the policy paper series is extensive. These include:
- Mining governance and sustainable development
- Intersection between industrial, trade, and competition policies
- Pathways toward clean energy transformations
- Fiscal and resource wealth management among mineral producers
- The role of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) in supporting vulnerable communities
- Geopolitical and security perspectives in connection to sustainability
- Green growth and green jobs
- Industrial strategies in supply chains upgrading.
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"Inkai Uranium Mine in Kazakhstan" by NAC Kazatomprom JSC is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Editor in Chief:
Jewellord T. Nem Singh, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
Managing Editors:
- Yingfeng Ji, Cambridge University, UK
- Nuerjiazzi Akeerbieke, ISS, The Netherlands
Members of the Editorial Board
- Ling Chen, Tsinghua University, China
- Katja Hujo, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland
- Eliza Massi, Embassy of Brazil, UK
- Susan Park, University of Sydney, Australia
- Lauren Herzer Risi, Wilson Center Environmental Change and Security Program, Washington DC
- Richard Saunders, York University, Canada
- Jennifer Turner, Wilson Center China Environment Forum Program, Washington DC
