Rasmika Ghosh, Research Associate with the Energy Law and Policy Team participated in the 10^th Annual Energy Transitions Conference, organized by the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School with the UEF Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL). Her presentation entitled, ‘Fragmentation, Fairness, and Functional Coherence: Re-evaluating Critical Mineral Governance through the Lens of Energy Justice’ explored the fragmented landscape of critical mineral governance and the potential to promote functional coherence by applying the principles of energy justice as a normative framework to guide the overlapping and fragmented regimes governing critical minerals.

The presentation delved into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute between Indonesia and the European Union triggered by Indonesia’s Nickel Policy, and compare the policy’s objectives against the ambitions of the EU’s Critical Raw Material’s Act