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Transparency of reporting on tailings storage facilities by the six largest members of the International Council on Mining and Metals 国际矿业和金属理事会六个最大成员报告尾矿储存设施的透明度

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Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105784

Cornelie Crous , Lochner Marais

The risks posed by mines' waste storage facilities have become evident. In 2020, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) accepted the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM). To discover whether the Standard has changed companies' practices, whether the changes are comprehensive enough, and whether enough attention is given to non-technical aspects, we examined sustainability reporting on tailings storage facilities by the six largest mining companies in the world that are members of the ICMM. The paper uses concepts from social constructivism. We compared the transparency in reporting before and after the acceptance of the GISTM to investigate whether it has improved reporting. Despite some improvement in transparency about the location of each tailings storage facility and the risks it poses, concerns remain. The aspects needing improvement are the disaster terminology, the frequency of reviewing tailings storage facilities, and the acknowledgement that communities change. Newmont Corporation's approach offers hope for a broader understanding of disaster. Our main conceptual contribution links the need for transparency in disaster thinking with the inability of transparency reporting to do justice to this need.

矿山废物储存设施所构成的风险已经变得明显。2020年，国际矿业和金属理事会（ICMM）接受了全球尾矿管理行业标准（gism）。为了发现该标准是否改变了公司的做法，这些变化是否足够全面，以及是否对非技术方面给予了足够的关注，我们研究了ICMM成员中全球六家最大的矿业公司关于尾矿储存设施的可持续发展报告。本文运用了社会建构主义的概念。我们比较了GISTM接受前后报告的透明度，以调查它是否改进了报告。尽管每个尾矿储存设施的位置及其构成的风险的透明度有所提高，但关切仍然存在。需要改进的方面是灾害术语、审查尾矿储存设施的频率以及对社区变化的认识。纽蒙特公司的方法为更广泛地理解灾难提供了希望。我们在概念上的主要贡献是将灾害思考的透明度需要与透明度报告无法公正地对待这一需要联系起来。

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Financing Africa's transition minerals: Chinese capital, control structures, and developmental constraints 为非洲转型矿产融资：中国资本、控制结构和发展限制

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Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105789

Michael Mbate

This paper examines the financial architecture and developmental implications of Chinese mineral financing in Africa. Using a dataset of 33 Chinese-financed mineral projects between 2006 and 2021, it shifts the focus from the volume of lending to the modalities of finance that condition Africa's bargaining power and position within global mineral value chains. The analysis shows that financing is highly concentrated - sectorally in copper and cobalt and institutionally in USD-denominated megaprojects dominated by state-linked entities. Loan terms with short grace periods and rigid repayment schedules, combined with implementation control by Chinese firms, constrain African agency and limit domestic value retention. Conceptually, the study demonstrates the usefulness of viewing resource governance through financial architecture, where repayment structures, equity shares, and risk allocation operate as mechanisms of control. It concludes that without stronger negotiation capacity, regulatory oversight, and regional coordination, Chinese mineral finance may reproduce extractive dependence rather than support long-term industrial development.

本文考察了中国在非洲矿产融资的金融架构和发展意义。该报告使用了2006年至2021年间中国资助的33个矿产项目的数据集，将重点从贷款规模转移到影响非洲议价能力和在全球矿产价值链中地位的融资模式。分析显示，融资高度集中——部分集中在铜和钴领域，制度性集中在以美元计价的大型项目中，这些项目由与政府有关的实体主导。宽限期短的贷款条款和严格的还款时间表，加上中国公司对实施的控制，限制了非洲的代理，限制了国内价值的留存。从概念上讲，该研究证明了通过金融架构来看待资源治理的有用性，其中还款结构、股权和风险分配作为控制机制运作。结论是，如果没有更强的谈判能力、监管监督和区域协调，中国矿产金融可能会再现采掘业依赖，而不是支持产业的长期发展。

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Who benefits from informal artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Ghana? Evidence from the Amansie West District 谁从加纳的非正式手工和小规模采矿（ASM）中受益？来自阿曼西西区的证据

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Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105797

Albert Adehokey , Lawrence Kwabena Brobbey , Dorcas Peggy Somuah , Joana Akua Serwaah Ameyaw

Informal artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has significantly expanded in Ghana and other African countries, often causing environmental degradation and social conflicts. However, insights on who benefits and the mechanisms used to benefit have not been well studied. We engaged the Theory of Access to examine the mechanisms actors involved in informal ASM use to gain, maintain and control benefits to mineral-rich lands in the Amansie West District of Ghana. Data were collected through focus group discussions and key informant interviews with informal ASM operators, traditional leaders, local government officials, laborers, supervisors, landowners, youth leaders, and smallholder farmers from four communities in the district. Three mechanisms of access; rights-based, structural and relational, and socio-developmental merchandising where prospective ASM operators undertake social development projects to gain and maintain access to gold in mining communities were identified. These are complemented by force, capital, knowledge, labor opportunities, and identity. Traditional leaders and local governance authorities are involved in a symbiotic relationship in granting and controlling access to gold contrary to the laws of Ghana. Vigilante youth groups benefit from informal ASM by mounting barriers on access roads that lead to mining communities and collecting money for the passage of excavators and other heavy equipment used in ASM operations. The findings highlight the need for innovative policy interventions like a multi-stakeholder dialogue process that integrates customary and statutory systems to regulate informal ASM, ensuring it is both environmentally sustainable and beneficial for local communities and the state.

在加纳和其他非洲国家，非正式的手工和小规模采矿（ASM）大大扩大，往往造成环境退化和社会冲突。然而，关于谁受益以及用于受益的机制的见解尚未得到很好的研究。我们利用获取理论来研究参与非正式ASM的行为者利用这些机制来获得、维持和控制加纳阿曼西西区矿产丰富土地的利益。通过焦点小组讨论和关键信息者访谈，收集了来自该地区四个社区的非正式ASM操作员、传统领导人、当地政府官员、劳工、监事、土地所有者、青年领导人和小农的数据。三种准入机制；确定了基于权利、结构和关系以及社会发展的商品销售，其中潜在的ASM运营商承担社会发展项目，以获得和保持在采矿社区获得黄金的机会。这些都与武力、资本、知识、劳动机会和身份相辅相成。传统领导人和地方管理当局在违反加纳法律的情况下，在授予和控制获得黄金的途径方面涉及一种共生关系。治安维持青年团体从非正式的ASM中受益，他们在通往采矿社区的道路上设置障碍，并为ASM操作中使用的挖掘机和其他重型设备筹集通行费用。研究结果强调了创新政策干预的必要性，如多方利益相关者对话进程，整合习惯和法律体系，以规范非正式的ASM，确保其既具有环境可持续性，又有利于当地社区和国家。

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Chinese mining investment globally: Who, where, and how? 中国矿业全球投资：谁、在哪里、如何？

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Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105780

David Landry

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Paradox of oil revenue allocation and utilisation in resource-rich countries: The case of Nigeria 资源丰富国家石油收入分配与利用的悖论：以尼日利亚为例

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Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105782

Sunday Eneojo Samuel, Reza Kouhy

This paper examines the complex dynamics of oil revenue allocation and utilisation in resource-rich nations, with Nigeria serving as a case study due to its significance in global energy markets. Although oil revenues have long driven economic growth and government income, their management has often failed to yield sustainable development outcomes. Drawing on the resource curse and Dutch disease theories, the study explores how fiscal structures influence sustainable growth trajectories in resource-dependent economies. While the resource curse and Nigeria's oil paradox are extensively studied, this paper introduces a comparative fiscal performance framework built on four integrated indicators, Oil Revenue Share of GDP, Capital Expenditure Ratio (CER), CER vs. Budget Balance, and Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) Assets per Capita, to evaluate Nigeria's fiscal behaviour relative to contemporary resource-rich countries. The framework's originality lies in linking these indicators to institutional capacity and governance outcomes, revealing how Nigeria's fiscal structure reflects economic inefficiency, political centralisation, and weak subnational accountability. This analytical approach moves beyond descriptive analysis to assess fiscal sustainability and reform readiness. Using a time-series dataset (1981–2022), this study employs an ex-post facto design, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound test, and judgmental sampling to uncover dynamic interactions among key variables. Findings show that oil revenue allocation has no significant long-run effect on Nigeria's sustainable economic growth. Policy recommendations include enhancing transparency in oil revenue management, empowering subnational governments, and linking oil revenues to human development through diversification, accountable governance, sovereign wealth management, and stable medium-term expenditure frameworks for sustainable, inclusive economic growth.

本文考察了资源丰富国家石油收入分配和利用的复杂动态，由于尼日利亚在全球能源市场的重要性，本文以尼日利亚为例进行了研究。尽管石油收入长期以来一直推动着经济增长和政府收入，但对石油收入的管理往往未能产生可持续发展的结果。利用资源诅咒和荷兰病理论，本研究探讨了财政结构如何影响资源依赖型经济体的可持续增长轨迹。虽然资源诅咒和尼日利亚的石油悖论被广泛研究，但本文引入了一个基于四个综合指标的比较财政绩效框架，即石油收入占GDP的份额、资本支出比率（CER）、资本支出比率与预算平衡、人均主权财富基金资产，以评估尼日利亚相对于当代资源丰富国家的财政行为。该框架的独创性在于将这些指标与机构能力和治理成果联系起来，揭示了尼日利亚的财政结构如何反映了经济效率低下、政治集中化和地方问责制薄弱。这种分析方法超越了描述性分析，以评估财政可持续性和改革准备程度。本研究使用时间序列数据集（1981-2022），采用事后设计、自回归分布滞后（ARDL）约束检验和判断抽样来揭示关键变量之间的动态相互作用。研究结果表明，石油收入分配对尼日利亚经济可持续增长没有显著的长期影响。政策建议包括提高石油收入管理的透明度，赋予地方政府权力，通过多元化、问责治理、主权财富管理和稳定的中期支出框架，将石油收入与人类发展联系起来，以实现可持续、包容性的经济增长。

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Fiscal stabilization in resource-rich developing economies amid a resource revenues downturn: A new-Keynesian analysis 资源收入下滑时资源丰富的发展中经济体的财政稳定：新凯恩斯主义分析

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Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105795

Cece Cherif Delamou

In the present paper we study the stabilizing effect of alternative fiscal policy measures in response to a fall in a developing country's revenues from their natural resources sector. The theoretical framework of a new-Keynesian small open economy is used, and the model is calibrated to the economy of Guinea. We find that a countercyclical public investments policy reduces private consumption further in the short run while the associated increasing level of public capital allows for a higher net increase in future private consumption only from the medium run onwards. The tax relief policy, in addition to requiring less public borrowing than the countercyclical spending policy as well as leading to less inflationary pressures, raises private consumption from baseline, on-impact and in the short run. The commonly recommended use of a sovereign wealth fund does raise private consumption and non-resource output, on impact and durably afterwards, and reduces inflation and public borrowing requirements, but does contract the competitiveness of domestically produced intermediate goods and causes a downswing in labor demand domestically.

在本文中，我们研究了替代财政政策措施在应对发展中国家自然资源部门收入下降时的稳定效应。本文采用了新凯恩斯主义小型开放经济的理论框架，并根据几内亚的经济情况对模型进行了校正。我们发现，反周期的公共投资政策在短期内进一步减少了私人消费，而相关的公共资本水平的增加只允许从中期开始的未来私人消费的更高净增长。税收减免政策，除了比反周期支出政策要求更少的公共借款，以及导致更小的通胀压力之外，还从基线、即时影响和短期内提高了私人消费。通常推荐的使用主权财富基金的做法确实会提高私人消费和非资源产出，并在影响和持久之后降低通胀和公共借贷需求，但确实会削弱国内生产的中间产品的竞争力，并导致国内劳动力需求下降。

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Assessing critical mineral occurrence in battery technologies 评估电池技术中关键矿物的含量

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Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105755

Elsa Camuamba , Bruno Damásio , Sandro Mendonça

The prevailing geopolitical context has amplified the centrality of core material inputs in the interaction between technological innovation, economic security, and the climate emergency. Battery technologies represent one of the frontiers in this evolving landscape. In this paper, we examine the link between innovation in these technologies and their material inputs, assessed in terms of mineral occurrence in a sample of 33,036 full-text battery patents published from 2000 to 2021. Our findings, which cover 19 battery technologies, show that, on average, battery technologies increasingly rely on critical minerals. The analysis further reveals a rich tapestry of critical minerals beyond the conventional set of key battery minerals, namely lithium. Evidence shows that chromium, gallium, germanium, molybdenum, niobium, phosphate, silicon, tantalum, tellurium, titanium, and zirconium are all growing in relative importance. Analysis of battery technology specialisation profiles and patterns further highlight inventor countries’ critical mineral needs. While the United States has grown more specialised in sodium-ion batteries, China shows a relative advantage in magnesium-ion, sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries. Significantly, these patterns similarly reflect diverging paradigmatic shifts in battery innovation along a global “North-South” divide. We conclude with a discussion of potential pathways for battery development and propose avenues for further enquiry at the interface of mineral criticality and geoeconomics.

当前的地缘政治背景放大了核心物质投入在技术创新、经济安全和气候紧急情况之间相互作用中的中心地位。电池技术代表了这一不断发展的领域的前沿之一。在本文中，我们研究了这些技术的创新与其材料投入之间的联系，并根据2000年至2021年发表的33,036个全文电池专利样本中的矿物含量进行了评估。我们的研究涵盖了19种电池技术，结果表明，平均而言，电池技术越来越依赖于关键矿物质。分析进一步揭示了除了传统的关键电池矿物（即锂）之外，还有丰富的关键矿物。有证据表明，铬、镓、锗、钼、铌、磷酸盐、硅、钽、碲、钛和锆的相对重要性都在增长。对电池技术专业化概况和模式的分析进一步突出了发明国的关键矿物需求。虽然美国在钠离子电池方面变得更加专业化，但中国在镁离子、钠离子和锂离子电池方面显示出相对优势。值得注意的是，这些模式同样反映了电池创新沿着全球“南北”鸿沟的不同范式转变。最后，我们讨论了电池发展的潜在途径，并提出了在矿物临界性和地缘经济学的界面上进一步研究的途径。

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Navigating environmental vulnerability and resource dependence: Toward equitable and sustainable growth pathways in resource-rich economies 应对环境脆弱性和资源依赖：在资源丰富的经济体中走向公平和可持续的增长之路

IF 10.2 2区经济学 0 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Resources Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105768

Md. Nahiduzzaman , Sanjoy Kumar Sarker , Bapon Chandra Kuri , Bablu Kumar Dhar , Partha Pratim Roy , Rejaul Karim

This study examines how environmental vulnerability and resource dependence shape economic sustainability in resource-rich economies, advancing beyond the traditional Environmental Kuznets Curve and Resource Curse frameworks. Using panel data from 147 countries covering the period 1990 to 2020, we analyze five stressors: CO₂ emissions, food price volatility, natural resource depletion, population density, and forest area. The analysis employs a panel ARDL framework, supplemented by FMOLS, DOLS, Granger causality, and robustness diagnostics. Results reveal marked heterogeneity across income groups. In high-income economies, forest conservation and demographic density enhance economic resilience, while emissions hinder renewable energy adoption. In middle-income economies, resource depletion and food price volatility drive short-term growth but reinforce a green growth paradox. In low-income economies, structural weaknesses limit responsiveness, locking development into extraction and emission-intensive paths. The study contributes by providing the first large-scale, income-stratified analysis of multidimensional stressors on growth and renewable energy, by strengthening methodological rigor with spuriousness and causality checks, and by offering context-sensitive policy pathways. Policy priorities include carbon pricing and forest-based carbon markets for high-income economies, governance reforms and green infrastructure investment for middle-income economies, and concessional finance for renewable energy and food system stabilization in low-income contexts.

本研究超越了传统的环境库兹涅茨曲线和资源诅咒框架，探讨了环境脆弱性和资源依赖如何影响资源丰富经济体的经济可持续性。利用1990年至2020年147个国家的面板数据，我们分析了五个压力因素：二氧化碳排放、粮食价格波动、自然资源枯竭、人口密度和森林面积。分析采用面板ARDL框架，辅以FMOLS、DOLS、格兰杰因果关系和鲁棒性诊断。结果显示了不同收入群体的显著异质性。在高收入经济体，森林保护和人口密度增强了经济韧性，而排放则阻碍了可再生能源的采用。在中等收入经济体，资源枯竭和食品价格波动推动了短期增长，但加剧了绿色增长悖论。在低收入经济体，结构性弱点限制了应对能力，将发展锁定在开采和排放密集型的道路上。这项研究的贡献在于，首次对经济增长和可再生能源的多维压力因素进行了大规模的收入分层分析，通过虚假和因果关系检查加强了方法的严谨性，并提供了对环境敏感的政策途径。政策重点包括针对高收入经济体的碳定价和基于森林的碳市场，针对中等收入经济体的治理改革和绿色基础设施投资，以及针对低收入经济体的可再生能源和粮食系统稳定的优惠融资。

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Community responses in a contested mining landscape: Perceptions and power in Belitung, Indonesia 有争议的矿业景观中的社区反应：印度尼西亚勿里洞的认知和权力

IF 10.2 2区经济学 0 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Resources Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105785

Dilruba Erkan , Henny Warsilah , Sri Yudawati Cahyarini

Good practice in extractive governance in resource-abundant regions requires understanding communities' perspectives through its everyday life experiences and perceptions in their full complexity. However, the ambivalent nature of community responses in such regions is poorly understood as the participation and opposition to extraction are often intertwined. Here, we analyze how communities perceive tin mining; and how they negotiate and articulate these responses in Belitung Island, Indonesia. A substantial body of work offered empirical research that maps out the intertwinedness of participation and opposition beyond the assumed binaries of agreement or disagreement. In this study, we further highlight the importance of occupational distance, such as (in)direct economic relations or dependency on mining, in influencing how communities negotiate and articulate their positions. Despite Belitung's long-standing role in global tin supply chains, the efforts to examine how differing economic relations to mining impact the island community perceptions have received less attention. This study contributes to those discussions by exploring how immediate economic pressures, everyday harm, and asymmetrical power relations shape perceptions of mining-related opportunities and harms, in regards to the occupational distance of households to the extractive industries. We employ mixed methods grounded in political economy, political ecology, and critical readings of the Social License to Operate (SLO) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) frameworks. Drawing on 146 household surveys and 12 in-depth interviews, we show that community perceptions are not stable or voluntary positions but negotiated stances produced through uneven political-economic landscapes mediated by governance failures and socio-economic dependencies. Neither economic dependency, perceived environmental harm, nor personal losses consistently predict agreement, participation, disagreement, or resistance. This challenges dominant assumptions of simplified versions of governance frameworks by examining community responses around the extractive economy in Belitung Island. This study intrumentalize occupational distance to advance a more nuanced understanding of extractive legitimacy and its implications for context-sensitive, participatory models of governance in resource-abundant regions.

资源丰富地区采掘治理的良好实践需要通过其日常生活经验和完全复杂的感知来理解社区的观点。然而，这些地区社区反应的矛盾性质很难理解，因为参与和反对开采往往是交织在一起的。在这里，我们分析了社区如何看待锡矿开采；以及他们如何在印尼勿里洞岛协商和表达这些回应。大量的工作提供了实证研究，在假设的同意或不同意的二元对立之外，描绘了参与和反对的相互交织。在本研究中，我们进一步强调了职业距离的重要性，例如直接经济关系或对采矿的依赖，在影响社区如何谈判和表达其立场方面。尽管勿里洞在全球锡供应链中扮演着长期的角色，但研究不同的经济关系如何影响岛屿社区对采矿的看法的努力却很少受到关注。本研究通过探讨直接的经济压力、日常危害和不对称的权力关系如何影响对采矿相关机会和危害的看法，以及家庭与采掘业的职业距离，为这些讨论做出了贡献。我们采用基于政治经济学、政治生态学以及对社会经营许可证（SLO）和企业社会责任（CSR）框架的批判性解读的混合方法。根据146个家庭调查和12个深度访谈，我们发现社区观念不是稳定或自愿的立场，而是通过治理失败和社会经济依赖介导的不平衡的政治经济格局产生的协商立场。无论是经济依赖、感知到的环境危害，还是个人损失，都不能一致地预测同意、参与、分歧或抵抗。本文通过考察勿里洞岛社区对采掘经济的反应，挑战了简化版治理框架的主流假设。本研究利用职业距离来促进对采掘合法性及其对资源丰富地区环境敏感、参与式治理模式的影响的更细致的理解。

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The critical minerals dilemma: Rethinking energy transition strategies in Africa 关键的矿物困境：重新思考非洲的能源转型战略

IF 10.2 2区经济学 0 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Resources Policy

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105769

Nurcan Kilinc-Ata , Liliana Proskuryakova

Energy transition relies heavily on critical minerals that play a crucial role in accelerating low-carbon development by influencing the viability and accessibility of green technologies. Many more minerals are also essential for industrialization, which is taking place or projected in most developing countries in Africa. This study focuses on countries with the largest mineral deposits in the region; for instance, South Africa is the leading producer of iridium, while Gabon and Mozambique extract substantial volumes of graphite and manganese. Using a cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) approach, we examine how the mineral import demand of 21 African countries responds to growing renewable energy (RE) consumption, as well as changes in energy efficiency and CO2 emissions between 2000 and 2023. This study provides the first cross-country CS-ARDL assessment of mineral trade responses to clean-energy drivers across African economies. The empirical findings indicate that, over the long term, RE expansion shows a positive association with mineral imports in African countries rich in these resources. Conversely, foreign direct investment (FDI) and gross domestic product (GDP) exhibit negative associations with import volumes. FDI also appears to reduce mineral exports in the long run, suggesting that investors increasingly prioritize domestic manufacturing over raw commodity exports. Additionally, RE consumption is associated with reduced mineral exports, while enhancing energy efficiency in the short term. These findings provide new regional insights into Africa's evolving mineral supply chains, highlighting the continent's complex role in global energy transition pathways and its need for resilient and inclusive mineral strategies.

能源转型严重依赖关键矿物，这些矿物通过影响绿色技术的可行性和可及性，在加速低碳发展方面发挥着至关重要的作用。更多的矿物对工业化也是必不可少的，非洲大多数发展中国家正在进行或预计进行工业化。这项研究的重点是该区域拥有最大矿藏的国家；例如，南非是铱的主要生产国，而加蓬和莫桑比克则开采大量的石墨和锰。利用横断面自回归分布滞后（CS-ARDL）方法，我们研究了21个非洲国家的矿产进口需求如何响应2000年至2023年间不断增长的可再生能源（RE）消费，以及能源效率和二氧化碳排放的变化。本研究首次对非洲各经济体的矿产贸易对清洁能源驱动因素的反应进行了跨国CS-ARDL评估。实证结果表明，从长期来看，可再生能源的扩张与这些资源丰富的非洲国家的矿物进口呈正相关。相反，外国直接投资（FDI）和国内生产总值（GDP）与进口量呈负相关。从长远来看，外国直接投资似乎也会减少矿产出口，这表明投资者越来越重视国内制造业，而不是原材料出口。此外，可再生能源消耗与减少矿物出口有关，同时在短期内提高能源效率。这些发现为非洲不断演变的矿产供应链提供了新的区域视角，突出了非洲大陆在全球能源转型路径中的复杂作用，以及对有弹性和包容性矿产战略的需求。

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