Emily Iona Stewart
@eionastewart.bsky.social
Head of Policy and European Relations @GlobalWitness Transition Minerals. Globally Just Transition 🌍
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Marchamos hoje pelas ruas de Belém porque sabemos que a verdadeira solução para a crise climática não virá dos gabinetes refrigerados da Blue Zone, mas dos territórios onde nossos povos resistem há séculos.
70 mil pessoas nas ruas, na Marcha Global pelo Clima na #COP30 em Belém
70 mil pessoas nas ruas, na Marcha Global pelo Clima na #COP30 em Belém
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Marchamos hoje pelas ruas de Belém porque sabemos que a verdadeira solução para a crise climática não virá dos gabinetes refrigerados da Blue Zone, mas dos territórios onde nossos povos resistem há séculos.
70 mil pessoas nas ruas, na Marcha Global pelo Clima na #COP30 em Belém
70 mil pessoas nas ruas, na Marcha Global pelo Clima na #COP30 em Belém
On my way to #COP30 in Belem to campaign for a global governance regime under the UNFCCC on responsible minerals. Hoping the Brazilians deliver on a clear Just Transition program!
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
On my way to #COP30 in Belem to campaign for a global governance regime under the UNFCCC on responsible minerals. Hoping the Brazilians deliver on a clear Just Transition program!
New investigation from Global Witness shows that, even as Russia masses troops on the Finnish borders and sends incursions into European airspace, the EU continues to import billions of dollars’ worth of nickel from a mine owned by Russia’s richest man.
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
Sanctions gap lets Russian-mined nickel flow to Western markets
A European loophole keeps nickel from Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel flowing to the US long after Washington banned imports of the Russian-origin metal
globalwitness.org
September 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
New investigation from Global Witness shows that, even as Russia masses troops on the Finnish borders and sends incursions into European airspace, the EU continues to import billions of dollars’ worth of nickel from a mine owned by Russia’s richest man.
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
Me writing in NH: Looming summits must deliver a pathway to fairer mineral extraction: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Me writing in NH: Looming summits must deliver a pathway to fairer mineral extraction: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Thanks to years of work highlighting companies complicit in conflict in DRC, the US has introduced new sanctions against companies profiting from war globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
US sanctions against entities financing conflict in DRC
Global Witness welcomes the US sanctions against the armed group PARECO-FF and three companies which have traded minerals sourced from PARECO-FF
globalwitness.org
August 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Thanks to years of work highlighting companies complicit in conflict in DRC, the US has introduced new sanctions against companies profiting from war globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
I was on Al Jazeera’s business show ‘Counting the Cost’ this morning talking about tariff wars, rare earths, Myanmar, and how the US & EU can get ahead of China with circularity.
Catch up on it here at the 13minute mark youtu.be/d7mxTB9MjJw?...
#RareEarth #Tariffs #AlJazeera #Minerals
Catch up on it here at the 13minute mark youtu.be/d7mxTB9MjJw?...
#RareEarth #Tariffs #AlJazeera #Minerals
August 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I was on Al Jazeera’s business show ‘Counting the Cost’ this morning talking about tariff wars, rare earths, Myanmar, and how the US & EU can get ahead of China with circularity.
Catch up on it here at the 13minute mark youtu.be/d7mxTB9MjJw?...
#RareEarth #Tariffs #AlJazeera #Minerals
Catch up on it here at the 13minute mark youtu.be/d7mxTB9MjJw?...
#RareEarth #Tariffs #AlJazeera #Minerals
I’ll be on Al Jazeera at around 10:15am CET tomorrow morning discussing minerals and trade sanctions between the US and China. Please tune in.
August 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I’ll be on Al Jazeera at around 10:15am CET tomorrow morning discussing minerals and trade sanctions between the US and China. Please tune in.
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Launching Dialogue Earth’s new Global China briefings — concise, email-delivered insights on China’s evolving role in climate & development across the Global South, for policy professionals, researchers and analysts.
📬 Sign up now: https://loom.ly/bznAzqY
📬 Sign up now: https://loom.ly/bznAzqY
Global China briefings by Dialogue Earth
Briefings for policy professionals and researchers on China’s diverse and evolving engagements in climate transitions and development in the Global South.
mailchi.mp
August 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Launching Dialogue Earth’s new Global China briefings — concise, email-delivered insights on China’s evolving role in climate & development across the Global South, for policy professionals, researchers and analysts.
📬 Sign up now: https://loom.ly/bznAzqY
📬 Sign up now: https://loom.ly/bznAzqY
I have been watching the WEuros25 with my two little girls in a pub in Cornwall, and I can’t say how important it is to me that they see a full bar of all ages, sexes, and races cheering on the Lionesses and going bonkers now they won. #Historic
July 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I have been watching the WEuros25 with my two little girls in a pub in Cornwall, and I can’t say how important it is to me that they see a full bar of all ages, sexes, and races cheering on the Lionesses and going bonkers now they won. #Historic
My blood pressure could do without this please England 😅#WEuros25
July 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My blood pressure could do without this please England 😅#WEuros25
Watching England v Sweden in #WomensEuros and that was two stunning equalising goals. Back in with a chance! Come on Lionesses!
July 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Watching England v Sweden in #WomensEuros and that was two stunning equalising goals. Back in with a chance! Come on Lionesses!
Our newest investigation is featured in the @theguardian.com today revealing how Trump & his crew of dangerously unqualified cronies are exploiting war and strife to get their hands on the world’s minerals, from Ukraine, to Pakistan and Yemen and beyond www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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July 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Our newest investigation is featured in the @theguardian.com today revealing how Trump & his crew of dangerously unqualified cronies are exploiting war and strife to get their hands on the world’s minerals, from Ukraine, to Pakistan and Yemen and beyond www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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We knew China's rush to install solar and wind was going to be wild but WOW😮. The solar panels & wind turbines China installed in May alone, in a single month, will generarate as much electricity as:
-Poland
-Sweden
-Norway
-the UAE
-North Carolina&Maryland or
-Washington&Wyoming
-Poland
-Sweden
-Norway
-the UAE
-North Carolina&Maryland or
-Washington&Wyoming
June 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
We knew China's rush to install solar and wind was going to be wild but WOW😮. The solar panels & wind turbines China installed in May alone, in a single month, will generarate as much electricity as:
-Poland
-Sweden
-Norway
-the UAE
-North Carolina&Maryland or
-Washington&Wyoming
-Poland
-Sweden
-Norway
-the UAE
-North Carolina&Maryland or
-Washington&Wyoming
Just wrapped up a press conference on the importance of addressing minerals n the climate COP process. You can catch up with it here; unfccc.int/event/nrgi-n...
June 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Just wrapped up a press conference on the importance of addressing minerals n the climate COP process. You can catch up with it here; unfccc.int/event/nrgi-n...
I’m at Bonn asking climate negotiators to think about the climate impacts of mining for the minerals that we need for our transition. Let’s get things right now, and not make the same mistakes of the past.
June 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m at Bonn asking climate negotiators to think about the climate impacts of mining for the minerals that we need for our transition. Let’s get things right now, and not make the same mistakes of the past.
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As Beijing asserts itself amid global trade tensions, it is playing an ace it has kept up its sleeve for decades: control over the flow of minerals Western countries desperately need to fuel their green, digital and defense ambitions.
www.politico.eu/article/chin...
www.politico.eu/article/chin...
China’s got the world in a rare earth choke hold
Beijing’s dominance in strategically crucial minerals gives it major leverage in trade talks.
www.politico.eu
June 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
As Beijing asserts itself amid global trade tensions, it is playing an ace it has kept up its sleeve for decades: control over the flow of minerals Western countries desperately need to fuel their green, digital and defense ambitions.
www.politico.eu/article/chin...
www.politico.eu/article/chin...
I’m at the UN offices in Bonn for the COP half way point. Amazonian communities are calling for an end to exploitation of their lands and resources. No more mining without community consultation and consent.
June 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I’m at the UN offices in Bonn for the COP half way point. Amazonian communities are calling for an end to exploitation of their lands and resources. No more mining without community consultation and consent.
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🚨 Critical minerals are powering the green transition – but at what cost?
COP still isn’t addressing the deforestation, corruption and land grabs linked to mineral extraction. That needs to change.
👉 gwitness.org/3FwT37B
#COP #JustTransition #ClimateCrisis
COP still isn’t addressing the deforestation, corruption and land grabs linked to mineral extraction. That needs to change.
👉 gwitness.org/3FwT37B
#COP #JustTransition #ClimateCrisis
Critical minerals: The one issue COP has forgotten about
To reverse the climate crisis, COP30 must address the unforeseen consequences of the critical mineral boom, which is adding more deforestation and CO2 emissions
gwitness.org
June 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 Critical minerals are powering the green transition – but at what cost?
COP still isn’t addressing the deforestation, corruption and land grabs linked to mineral extraction. That needs to change.
👉 gwitness.org/3FwT37B
#COP #JustTransition #ClimateCrisis
COP still isn’t addressing the deforestation, corruption and land grabs linked to mineral extraction. That needs to change.
👉 gwitness.org/3FwT37B
#COP #JustTransition #ClimateCrisis
I’m off to Bonn next week to launch an initiative to get the COP to include language about mining and minerals. Find out more here globalwitness.org/en/campaigns... #TransitionMinerals #COP
globalwitness.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I’m off to Bonn next week to launch an initiative to get the COP to include language about mining and minerals. Find out more here globalwitness.org/en/campaigns... #TransitionMinerals #COP
👂 This week I was invited on to Geopolitical Ecology podcast.
We covered US, EU, and China competition for minerals, as well as who really profits from the energy transition.
open.spotify.com/episode/1q9q...
Hope you enjoy listening.
We covered US, EU, and China competition for minerals, as well as who really profits from the energy transition.
open.spotify.com/episode/1q9q...
Hope you enjoy listening.
open.spotify.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
👂 This week I was invited on to Geopolitical Ecology podcast.
We covered US, EU, and China competition for minerals, as well as who really profits from the energy transition.
open.spotify.com/episode/1q9q...
Hope you enjoy listening.
We covered US, EU, and China competition for minerals, as well as who really profits from the energy transition.
open.spotify.com/episode/1q9q...
Hope you enjoy listening.
Gaza’s borders are temporarily open. Get on UN food program website and donate now!
May 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Gaza’s borders are temporarily open. Get on UN food program website and donate now!
It’s that time of year when my social media feed becomes a Eurovision live feed!
On to some predictions!
On to some predictions!
May 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It’s that time of year when my social media feed becomes a Eurovision live feed!
On to some predictions!
On to some predictions!
Seng Li from our partner, the Shannan foundation, is visiting Brussels from Myanmar to talk about the huge harms caused by mining for heavy rare earths in his region. Also hearing from communities in Jujay, Argentina and in France.
May 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Seng Li from our partner, the Shannan foundation, is visiting Brussels from Myanmar to talk about the huge harms caused by mining for heavy rare earths in his region. Also hearing from communities in Jujay, Argentina and in France.
We kicked off our Myanmar advocacy tour with a meeting with MEP @yverougstraete.bsky.social today in the EP. It was a great start to our trip meeting someone who really gets that responsible mining practices can be a boon to European industry & security.
May 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We kicked off our Myanmar advocacy tour with a meeting with MEP @yverougstraete.bsky.social today in the EP. It was a great start to our trip meeting someone who really gets that responsible mining practices can be a boon to European industry & security.