EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act fails to protect Sámi rights – here’s how to strengthen it

In Northern Europe there is evidence of human rights breaches in the homeland of the Indigenous Sámi people, and accusations of green colonialism brought about by the rapid increase in investments in the name of the green transition. There is a risk that the proposed EU Critical Raw Materials Act will both compound these injustices and fail in its objective to speed up mineral extraction for the climate transition, write Rasmus Kløcker Larsen (SEI) and Kaisa Raitio (SLU).