The global demand for critical minerals has soared as AI infrastructure proliferates and the world transitions to green energy. However, the extraction of minerals often comes at a great cost—to communities living in the vicinity of mines, and the immediate environment. As the race among countries to capture supplies of minerals accelerates, it’s crucial to ask under what conditions the minerals are mined, and who shapes these conditions, say Jeffrey Berger, Principal, Dalberg Advisors, and Shyam Sundaram, Global Operations Partners, Dalberg Advisors.

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