Extraction to Equity: Can Sustainable Finance and Trade Drive Responsible Critical Mineral Value Chains in Asia?

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🔗 Register to join IN PERSON: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/pawGnPzg5e 🔗 Register to join ONLINE: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jiwxAk6nSV29ifzLgSECkg#/registration This multi-stakeholder discussion will examine the trade and investment dynamics now shaping critical minerals value chains across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including geopolitical rivalry, resource competition and the absence of benefit-sharing mechanisms, and what these dynamics imply for the region’s collective bargaining position. The session will present findings and recommendations from the FFA network’s research, with particular attention to trade governance, benefit sharing and local value addition, and the distance between sustainability narratives and the substantive content of emerging trade agreements, Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) and the financing behind them. The discussion will also generate input to inform future workstreams under ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Minerals (ASOMM) and ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Minerals (AMMin), and the anticipated Declaration on ASEAN Critical Minerals. Read FFA's new 2026 critical minerals report: bit.ly/4hraS6Q Learn more about the session: bit.ly/4deHAqM