{"id":128918,"date":"2024-03-14T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/von-der-leyen-heads-to-greenland-as-eu-seeks-materials-for-green-transition\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:10:22","slug":"von-der-leyen-heads-to-greenland-as-eu-seeks-materials-for-green-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/von-der-leyen-heads-to-greenland-as-eu-seeks-materials-for-green-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen heads to Greenland as EU seeks materials for green transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128918\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is heading to Greenland as melting Arctic ice, demand for green-technology raw materials and competition from China increase the territory\u2019s strategic importance. While not in the EU, the autonomous Danish territory is of strong interest to Brussels, especially for highly sought after raw materials \u2013 it believes it has 25 of the 34 that it needs.<\/p>\n<p>During a two-day trip with the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, Von der Leyen will first travel to the Faroe Islands on Thursday before visiting Greenland the following day to open a new EU Commission office in the capital, Nuuk. It comes as Von der Leyen seeks a second term in office as the president of the EU\u2019s executive body. The EU\u2019s climate chief, Wopke Hoekstra, said this week that the EU must speed up green efforts after the EU election.<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Baert, a special adviser to Von der Leyen on trade and international partnerships, said Greenland had many of the raw materials \u2013 such as rare earth elements and metals \u2013 that it needed for its green transition. \u201cWe lack some of the access to some of those materials. So having partners that can process, that can produce, that can mine these critical raw materials is critically important. But we do that fundamentally with a win-win spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greenland, he said, \u201chas about 27 of the strategic and critical raw materials that we have defined as being critical or strategic in the European Union. So enormous potential, but it is very much a question now of making that a reality. We are still at a fairly early stage when it comes to the exploration and the investments that are needed.\u201d The Greenlandic government said that it in fact has 25 of the materials sought by the EU, but that it is \u201cstill a big chunk\u201d. The European Commission later confirmed that Greenland had 25 of the 34 materials sought. The visit comes months after the commission signed a partnership with Greenland in November.<\/p>\n<p>Baert said the EU\u2019s approach was with \u201cfull respect\u201d for the partner country and that the EU would bring partnership, knowledge and create value locally for Greenlanders. \u201cWe are not looking to simply, let\u2019s say, extract and run. Others around the world are doing this,\u201d he said. \u201cChina in particular, this is a model that\u2019s particularly followed by them, but also by others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the trip, during which Von der Leyen will also visit evidence of the climate crisis, should be seen as \u201cgeopolitical\u201d, with the intention of telling Greenland: \u201cEven if you\u2019re not part of the European Union, you\u2019re part of Europe.\u201d He praised Greenland\u2019s alignment with many of the EU sanctions against Russia and said: \u201cWe really want to take our relationship [with Greenland] to the next level.\u201d The new office, he added, was a means of keeping \u201cour ear close to the ground\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Naaja H Nathanielsen, Greenland\u2019s minister for business, trade and raw materials, said the new office would \u201cserve as a local platform for transatlantic cooperation between the European Union and Greenland and will build on already existing and extensive relationship with have with the European Union over decades.\u201d She said the minerals agreement is about \u201cbenefits on both sides\u201d. Greenland needs bilateral cooperation to develop its mineral sector, she said, which requires significant capital and long-term investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevelopment of mines, exports of minerals is of course an important issue for the diversification of the Greenlandic economy,\u201d she said. While fishing, the current top source of income, is not expected to be overtaken for many years, the tourism and minerals sectors are important focuses for growth. \u201cIf the western world wants sustainable diversified secure value chains, some of these minerals will need to come from countries that are smaller, like Greenland. We don\u2019t have the economic muscles to invest ourselves in the mineral sector,\u201d she said. In order to enable the green transition, a \u201chelping hand\u201d from larger economies would be needed, she added.<\/p>\n<p>The trip also comes at a critical point for Denmark\u2019s relationship with Greenland, amid a growing independence movement. There is also outrage over the 4,500 women and girls who are believed to have been fitted with contraceptive coils without their consent or knowledge by Danish doctors \u2013 some of the girls were as young as 12 \u2013 in an attempt to reduce Greenland\u2019s population. As those affected continue to come forward \u2013 a group of 143 women has sued the Danish state \u2013 they are still waiting for a full official response from the Danish government.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister\u2019s office declined to comment on whether Frederiksen would be addressing the historical violation during the visit. During their visit to the Faroe Islands on Thursday, Frederiksen will meet prime minister Aksel V Johannesen and Von der Leyen will sign an agreement for broader and deeper cooperation between the Faroe Islands and the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/14\/von-der-leyen-greenland-office-eu-green-transition\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/von-der-leyen-heads-to-greenland-as-eu-seeks-materials-for-green-transition\/\">Von der Leyen heads to Greenland as EU seeks materials for green transition<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[274,3587,1106,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-128918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-green-transition","tag-greenland","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}