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Latinoamérica: Aumenta la demanda por la industria del litio hacia una política de industrialización
Author: Observatorio de conflictos mineros de América Latina-OCMAL (Latinoamérica)
“La industrialización del litio: Los casos de Argentina y Chile”- 27 de septiembre de 2019...
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- Related companies: Albemarle Jujuy Energía y Minería Sociedad del Estado (JEMSE) Posco Samsung Samsung SDI (part of Samsung)
Earthworks releases report on the environmental and human impacts of rising mineral demand for renewable energy
Author: Earthworks, UTS ISF
"REPORT: Clean Energy Must Not Rely on Dirty Mining", 17 April 2019....
- Related stories: Over 50 organizations urge World Bank to prioritise human rights & environmental impacts in "climate-smart" mining
- Related in-depth areas: Automobile Climate change Climate justice Latest news on natural resources Mining Natural Resources Renewable energy & human rights
- Related companies: BMW Connected Energy First Solar Huayou Cobalt LG Chem Powervault Renault Samsung SDI (part of Samsung) Tesla Motors Vale
Author: Automobil Produktion
"BMW stoppt Kobalt-Einkauf aus dem Kongo", 25 M?rz 2019...
- Related companies: BASF BMW Samsung Samsung SDI (part of Samsung)
Amnesty International Ethical Batteries press release
Author: Amnesty International
"Amnesty challenges industry leaders to clean up their batteries", 21 March 2019....
- Related stories: Amnesty International challenges the electric vehicle industry to produce batteries free of human rights abuses
- Related companies: Apple BMW Daimler Renault Samsung SDI (part of Samsung)
The dark side of electric cars: Exploitative labour practices
Author: Mark Dummett, Time (US)
...[S]ome electric cars are not, currently, as ethically “clean” as manufacturers would have us believe. [A key component of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries on which electric cars run is cobalt.] Amnesty International’s?research?has shown that...
- Related stories: Electro-mobility & resource governance: NGOs urge carmakers to take responsibility for social & environmental costs of electric vehicles USA: Tesla faces federal labour board complaint over alleged interference with workers' right to unionise
- Related companies: Apple HP (Hewlett-Packard) Huawei Technologies Huayou Cobalt Samsung Samsung SDI (part of Samsung) Sony
China: Graphite production for lithium-ion batteries causes severe environmental pollution; complaints by villagers are suppressed
Author: Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post
“In your phone, in their air - A trace of graphite is in consumer tech. In these Chinese villages, it’s everywhere.”, 2 October 2016...
Tracking human rights violations & environmental impacts in lithium batteries supply chains in China, DRC & So. America
This series of stories in the Washington Post found that the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries - the power source for smartphones, laptops and electric cars - is linked to human rights?abuses and environmental pollution in cobalt mines in Congo,...
Tech giants pledge to keep children out of cobalt mines that supply smartphone and electric-car batteries
Author: Peter Whoriskey and Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post
Separate groups of the world’s leading technology companies are launching two initiatives to curb “the worst forms of child labor” and other abusive practices in the supply chain for cobalt, a key ingredient in lithium-ion batteries that power...
- Related companies: Apple Foxconn (part of Hon Hai) Hon Hai HP (Hewlett-Packard) LG Chem Samsung Samsung SDI (part of Samsung) Sony
In your phone, In their Air
Author: Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post
….The companies making [lithium-ion batteries] promote the bright futuristic possibilities of the “clean” technology. But virtually all such batteries use graphite, and its cheap production in China, often under lax environmental controls, produces...