Climate Change
Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses
A new report highlights more than 400 allegations against mining companies operating in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, home to large deposits of minerals used in low-carbon technologies.
As high-consuming economies like the United States and Europe move to supplant fossil fuels with low-carbon technologies, a race is on to extract and process critical minerals for use in electric vehicles, wind turbines, transmission lines and solar panels.
Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses