A new study finds that auto, battery and electronics firms are indirectly using cobalt sourced from unsafe artisanal mines in Congo that rely heavily on children doing dangerous work.
A child and a woman break rocks extracted from a cobalt and copper mine in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 23, 2016.Carmakers have committed tens of billions of dollars to dramatically boost the production of batteries for electric vehicles in the U.S., including
Shifting the auto industry to electric power from petroleum, the primary energy source for a century, is a massive undertaking. It requires the creation of new factories to make millions of batteries and electric motors and ato make the vast and ubiquitous public charging infrastructure all those EVs will need. At the same time, prices for commodity metals including lithium, nickel and cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries will likely remain high as demand races ahead of supply.
“Global buyers engaging in a futile attempt to avoid cobalt associated with ASM ignore the inconvenient truth that it is nearly impossible to separate the flow of ASM cobalt from the larger supply of industrially mined cobalt,” Dorotheé Baumann-Pauly, director of the Geneva Center and author of the cobalt report, said in an emailed statement.
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