Malavika Rao
@Malspeaks
About/Bio
Malavika Rao is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Law at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) at the University of Cambridge. Her research is supported by the Postdoc Mobility Fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Her areas of research are international migration law, international environmental law and human rights.
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Critical Minerals, Environmental Harm and the Unspoken Rights of Nature: The Kafue River Spill in Zambia
May 5, 2025
Malavika Rao
The global demand for critical minerals has intensified as part of the clean energy transition in line with goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. The environmental costs of extracting and processing these minerals, however, are increasingly borne by mineral-rich but ecologically and socially vulnerable regions. The 2024 Guiding Principles on Critical Energy…
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Critical Minerals, Environmental Harm and the Unspoken Rights of Nature: The Kafue River Spill in Zambia
May 5, 2025
Malavika Rao
The global demand for critical minerals has intensified as part of the clean energy transition in line with goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. The environmental costs of extracting and processing these minerals, however, are increasingly borne by mineral-rich but ecologically and socially vulnerable regions. The 2024 Guiding Principles on Critical Energy…