Advocacy for “metals and ecological transition”
The Justice & Peace advocacy center is active on issues of human rights, democracy, natural resources, impunity, etc. Our many advocacy themes complement each other with the aim of working for more peace and justice. Discover here our advocacy on the ecological transition and the challenges of metals.
Why advocate on ecological transition and metal issues?
Justice and Peace aims to enlighten political decision-makers on the metal issues. The ecological transition, as conceived today, is based on technologies (electric batteries, renewable energies, digital, etc.) that are highly dependent on metals (cobalt, nickel, lithium, copper, etc.).
Yet, these natural resources are non-renewable – the stock is finite – and their extraction has serious impacts on populations and their environment. Our decision-makers must re-appropriate these limits and integrate them into the ecological transition project. collective sobriety, that is to say, decide democratically to reduce our production and consumption of energy and natural resources by modifying our uses and our lifestyles.
For this, we carry out analytical work, political advocacy as well as several concrete actions !
We cannot continue to live without limits in a world with limited resources.
This plea on ecological transition and metals was developed specifically from January 2021 on the basis of a project in collaboration with Mutual Aid and Fraternity called “Let’s save our common home”. Justice & Peace focuses its action and expertise on political decision-makers. The part of the project carried out by Entraide et Fraternité concerns raising awareness and putting Catholic schools and communities into action. You can discover this section here.
Our analytical work on the subject
For a first approach to the content of the advocacy carried out by Justice & Peace with decision-makers, consult analyzes and press appearances following!
Our citizen political advocacy on the ecological transition
“My town low-tech "
To date, we have received around twenty responses and have been requested for 5 political meetings (excluding the municipality of Etterbeek with which we are already following up). These meetings led to an exchange on the concept of low-tech and a declared desire to collaborate to raise awareness of this notion and the ideas it encompasses. You can find out here.
“5G Advocacy”
Our actions for a sober and fair ecological transition
Justice & Peace led other concrete actions to inform and raise awareness among political decision-makers and citizens about the need of a sober and just ecological transition.
Video campaign on ecological transition
In March 2022, we launched a video campaign on our social networks called “For a sober and fair ecological transition – Call on your elected officials”. Through 5 short video clips, Justice & Peace wishes to raise awareness among an audience aged 18 to 30 about the need to sobriety as a social project. The campaign led to an evening with committed young people organized in collaboration with Youth for climate And the construction of political proposals.
Watch the campaign videos on the right.
Find the advocacy that emerged here !
Political seminar: What ecological transition for tomorrow? Energy, climate, metals
On May 16, 2022, Justice & Peace and the Belgian Network for Natural Resources (RBRN) organized a political seminar aimed at political representatives, civil society actors and the private sector. Different personalities from the academic world addressed the unthoughts of the ecological transition such as the impasse of economic growth, the limits of renewable energies, metals, the circular economy, ... to arrive at the imperative of sobriety and integral ecology as possible solutions.
You can find the presentations of this seminar on our Youtube channel!
On the same theme, discover our file on the minerals of the energy transition.
