A Charge to Global Leaders to Address the Digital & Governance Design Failures Undermining the Energy Transition
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Based on research insights from COP30 and existing data stewardship initiatives, we have crafted an open letter to initiate and frame a much-needed conversation that remains largely absent: an integrated discussion on the design, content, and data governance of information used to identify sourcing locations for so-called “energy transition minerals.”
Through consultation with early interlocutors, we have crafted this letter and gathered initial public signatures from close networks to establish initial support. We will send it to the named recipients by April 13 ahead of the Santa Marta meeting on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, while continuing to expand the circle of signatories as additional translations are finalized. We also hope that, by virtue of circulating this letter among communities that typically work in isolation (mining, energy politics, Land rights, digital design, database management, labor, etc) this letter might also help inspire folks to think more integratively across these domains.
We will continue to collect signatures, even after we deliver the letter, to create a living document of experts and concerned parties that can continue to drive this conversation forward.
The growing list of signatories includes:
