SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE:
Can critical minerals fuel peace and prosperity instead of conflict?

The Security Council, presided by H.E. Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is meeting now in New York to debate critical minerals — the lithium, cobalt and copper powering the clean energy transition. Demand is set to triple by 2030.

The question: will this mineral wealth build peace and prosperity, or fund conflict and corruption?

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