This report contributes to the debate on the regulatory framework related to trade in raw materials that the EU is currently setting up and its impact on resource-rich countries in the global South. It questions whether these proposed instruments are coherent with the overarching aim of the European Green Deal to ‘leave no person and no place behind’. By evaluating current EU trade policies, especially FTAs that include energy and raw material chapters, we question whether this trade regime will enable a move towards a socio-ecological transition and live up to the EU´s international climate commitments. The report focuses mainly on the stage of the extraction of raw materials needed for the energy transition.