Environmental, social and governance pressures should feature in future scenario planning about the transition to a low carbon future. As low-carbon energy technologies advance, markets are driving demand for energy transition metals. Increased extraction rates will augment the stress placed on people and the environment in extractive locations. To quantify this stress, we develop a set of global composite environmental, social and governance indicators, and examine mining projects across 20 metal commodities to identify the co-occurrence of environmental, social and governance risk factors. Our findings show that 84% of platinum resources and 70% of cobalt resources are located in high-risk contexts. Reflecting heightened demand, major metals like iron and copper are set to disturb more land. Jurisdictions extracting energy transition metals in low-risk contexts are positioned to develop and maintain safeguards against mining-related social and environmental risk factors.

环境、社会和治理压力应在未来向低碳未来过渡的情景规划中体现出来。随着低碳能源技术的进步，市场正在推动对能源过渡金属的需求。提高采掘率将增加采掘地点对人和环境的压力。为了量化这种压力，我们制定了一套全球综合环境、社会和治理指标，并检查了 20 种金属商品的采矿项目，以确定环境、社会和治理风险因素的同时发生。我们的研究结果表明，84% 的铂资源和 70% 的钴资源位于高风险环境中。反映需求增加，铁和铜等主要金属将扰乱更多的土地。