There is no climate transition without transition minerals and how they are governed will decide whether decarbonisation delivers development and prosperity for producer countries, or simply repeats extractive patterns under a green label. This panel examines the gap between the G7’s Critical Minerals Action Plan, which frames minerals mainly as a supply security issue for consumer economies, and South Africa’s 2025 G20 Critical Minerals Framework, which centres value retention, local industrialisation and community rights. With the UK holding the G20 presidency in 2027 and the G7 presidency in 2028, there is a genuine window to shift finance toward producer-country processing, regional value chains, and enforceable safeguards including Free, Prior and Informed Consent as a right, not a formality. Join us to explore what truly financed partnership with mineral-rich Global South nations could look like in practice.