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Raw materials: Energy association wants mining to be a green investment

The mining of rare earths and other raw materials is particularly harmful to the environment. Despite this, the European Initiative for Energy Security now wants to allow mining companies to issue green bonds — even though the sector is excluded from the EU taxonomy.

Manuel Berkel
30. October 2025
An excavator loads trucks with rare earth at a mine in Mojiang Hani Autonomous County, Simao city, southwest Chinas Yunnan province, 18 March 2008. The EU has demanded that China loosen its policy on sales of rare earth materials after the World Trade Organisation upheld a ruling that Beijings policies to limit raw material exports violated international trade rules. The case, brought in 2009 by the EU, US and Mexico, touches on one of the biggest sources of tension in the world trading system: the use of export restrictions to hoard raw materials for the use of domestic manufacturers.
Mining in China: The extraction of raw materials is generally considered to be particularly harmful to the environment. (picture alliance / dpa | Dycj)

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Last updated: 30. October 2025

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