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Breaking Ground: Critical minerals, critical opportunities for women’s participation

Event Details
Date:
March 12, 2025
Venue:
United Nations General Assembly Building
Location:
New York, USA

This side event of the 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) will discuss women’s roles and opportunities related to the extraction, production, and beneficiation of critical minerals for the energy transition and related sectors, including strategies to ensure their equal participation at every step—from artisanal and small-scale mining to higher-value-added processes.

The event is designed to foster dialogue on strategies needed to ensure that women can benefit from the trade and employment opportunities in the expanding mineral sector, showcase policies to facilitate women’s equitable participation in the low-carbon energy transition, and discuss public and private policies to enhance finance, technology, and markets for women in the mineral value chain.

Details

  • Date: Wednesday March 12, 2025
  • Time: 4:45-6:00 pm EST
  • Location: New York, UN General Assembly Building, CR-12
  • Co-organized by the IGF and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

This event is open to all participants at CSW69. If you are not attending CSW69 but want to attend this side event, please send a request with “CSW69 Side Event” in the subject line to Secretariat@IGFMining.org by Friday, February 21, 2025.