Mining: A Key Player in the Energy Transition and Sustainable Development

Authors

Cristian Alexis López Solano
E.S.E. Centro de Salud de Toca (Boyacá)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6626-854X

Synopsis

Current environmental discourse and environmental populism have distorted the roles of the various stakeholders in one of the most ambitious projects of our time: energy transition and sustainable development. Contrary to what one might think, from a pragmatic and technical standpoint, it has been demonstrated that mining plays a key role in all processes of transition, readjustment, and adaptation of energy matrices that depend on fossil fuels globally. An energy transition without mining is, at the very least, a fallacy; this is because the raw materials used to build new “clean energy technologies” come from minerals.

Author Biography

Cristian Alexis López Solano, E.S.E. Centro de Salud de Toca (Boyacá)

Abogado por la Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, especialista en Derecho de la Contratación Estatal, especialista en Derecho Ambiental, especialista (c) en Seguros y magister en Derecho Público con Énfasis en Regulación Minera, Energética y Petrolera por la Universidad Externado de Colombia. 

Portada Protección de los derechos humanos en contextos de procesos de paz

Volume

Protection of Human Rights in the Contexts of Peace Processes, Migration, and Environmentalism

Pages

365-377

Published

August 20, 2026

Series

Derecho y Política

Categories

Copyright (c) 2026 Marco Tulio Calderón Peñaloza (director); Santiago A. Bello Paredes (director); Jorge Edwin Rodríguez Navarro (Compilador de obra); David Rubio Quintero, Javiera Ramírez Muñoz, Fredy Vásquez Cabrera, Teresa Medina Arnaiz, María Valentina Silva Venali, Norma Constanza Sanabria Forero, Belisario Prats Palma, Alejandro Salcedo Jaramillo, Juan Carlos Páez Vieyra, Cristian Alexis López Solano, Duval Llaguno Rivanadeira, Alberto Carvajalino Slaghekke, Iván Vargas-Chaves, Andrés Castro Franco, Andrés González Serrano, Maira Alejandra Murillo Betancur, María Isabel Meléndez Salamanca, Cristián Mönckeberg Bruner, Yamil Aitor Musa Iratzagorria, Oscar Alexander Tobar Soler, Angélica Lorena Salazar Tibaquirá, José Fernando Rodríguez Marulanda, Katerine Correa Gómez (Autor de capítulo)

License

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How to Cite

López Solano, C. A. (2026). Mining: A Key Player in the Energy Transition and Sustainable Development. In (Ed.), & D. Rubio Quintero, J. Ramírez Muñoz, F. Vásquez Cabrera, T. Medina Arnaiz, M. V. Silva Venali, N. C. Sanabria Forero, B. Prats Palma, A. Salcedo Jaramillo, J. C. Páez Vieyra, C. A. López Solano, D. Llaguno Rivanadeira, A. Carvajalino Slaghekke, I. Vargas-Chaves, A. Castro Franco, A. González Serrano, M. A. Murillo Betancur, M. I. Meléndez Salamanca, C. Mönckeberg Bruner, Y. A. Musa Iratzagorria, … K. Correa Gómez, Protection of Human Rights in the Contexts of Peace Processes, Migration, and Environmentalism (pp. 365-377). Editorial Universidad La Gran Colombia. https://omp.ugc.edu.co/index.php/catalagoeditorial/catalog/book/978-628-7626-74-4/chapter/387