IBON International presents Power from the Ground, a podcast on Southern feminist voices on critical minerals and people-powered transition.

To prevent runaway climate change, the world must rapidly shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy with the global North leading the way. Instead of addressing their own overconsumption and meeting their climate finance obligations to the South, the US, Europe, and other global North countries are pursuing a resource-intensive growth strategy with a neocolonial slant. Through neoliberal trade agreements and arm-twisting tactics, they force poor but resource-rich countries to allow the unimpeded extraction and export of critical minerals to bolster industries seeking to profit from low-emissions technologies.

In Power from the Ground, we talk with Southern grassroots activists to unpack the neocolonial undercurrent of dominant energy transition discourses, trade policies and agreements on critical minerals, and alternatives to achieve equitable, feminist, and people-powered transition.