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In this context, it presented in March 2023 a proposal for a "Critical Raw Materials Regulation", ostensibly aimed at ensuring a safe and sustainable supply of such raw materials.17. However, as explained in a report by the Research Center on Multinational Enterprises ( somo , for its acronym in Dutch), the strategy proposed by the eu will not lead to a sustainable supply of critical minerals for Europe, as it will exacerbate the risks for human rights and the environment, will undermine economic dynamics in partner countries and will continue to reinforce unsustainable consumption in rich countries18.

Beyond these lines of continuity, there are Phone Number List novelties. An important characteristic of the "Decarbonization Consensus" is linked to the complexity of neocolonial relations in a multipolar world, marked by inter-imperial struggle, where geopolitics is transformed into geoeconomics and multiple colonialisms.




 It is not just the EU , lacking in critical minerals, that is seeking direct access to them. China, despite having these minerals, is very well positioned in the global South, where for almost two decades it has been making very aggressive investments in strategic extractive sectors, maintaining a different type of relationship from those established by the US and Europe .19. One of the peculiarities of the new dependence that is generated between China and the Latin American countries, of which in almost all cases it is the first commercial partner, is that although their investments are long-term and are located in different sectors (agribusiness , mining, oil, infrastructure linked to extractive activities), in terms of technology transfers –very particularly in relation to the green transition– there is a tendency to use state-of-the-art Chinese technology, which also sometimes includes labor from that country20.