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Critical Minerals & the G20: From Strategic Resources to Developmental Assets

Industrial Development and Policy Independence in the Global South

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Posted 12 November 2026

   

🌐 Global South Perspectives Network in association with the T20 U.S.

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Intensifying international competition for critical minerals presents resource-producing countries with both an opportunity and a risk. These minerals are essential to the global energy transition, advanced manufacturing, digital technologies and national security. However, many producing countries could remain exporters of unprocessed resources while the greater share of economic value, technological capability and employment is created elsewhere. This consultation explored how critical-mineral-producing countries can use growing global demand to advance industrialization, economic diversification and sustainable development. It also considered how these countries can engage competing global powers and commercial partners without sacrificing policy independence, control over strategic resources or the ability to secure the best possible developmental return.

  • Beyond Extraction: Building industries that retain value
  • Africa's Opportunity: Cooperation, capacity and regional growth
  • Who Benefits?: communities, accountability and the environment


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