Miguel Ángel Casquet Cano

Miguel Ángel Casquet Cano is a PhD researcher in Economics at Complutense University of Madrid and a research fellow at the Complutense Institute for International Studies, working on environmental economics, energy and quantitative methods.

The Green Transition has an Illegal Mining Problem

Critical minerals are now at the centre of the green transition, but their origin is often difficult to verify. Poor traceability creates opportunities for criminal groups to profit from the same supply chains.

By Miguel Ángel Casquet Cano

/ 3 Oct 2026

The Green Transition has an Illegal Mining Problem