The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre published a report entitled “Powering electric vehicles: Human Rights and Environmental Abuses in Southeast Asia’s Nickel Supply Chains” this month. The report sheds light on the significant risks…
Indonesian farmers on Wawonii Island are using machetes to protect their land against nickel miners, this article reports. The global demand for metals used in electric vehicle batteries and stainless steel has led to a rush by…
Official Statement of the People and the Sulawesi Alliance, Indonesia Related to the G20 Summit Meeting in Nusa Dua Bali “Save the Rainforests and the People of Sulawesi: Stop Financing and Investment in Mines, and…
Japan’s carmakers are set to accelerate efforts in the country’s transition to electric vehicles. The shift might seem slow but it is seen to drastically reshape the structure of the car manufacturing industry, with businesses…
Lohum Cleantech has signed a deal to supply 10,000 tonnes of specialty chemicals for the battery supply chain to company Glencore over the next five years, worth US$200-million. According to Rajat Verma, founder and CEO…
Reportlinker.com has released its report “Silicone Lubricant Market – Global Outlook & Forecast 2022-2027” noting that the global silicone lubricant market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15% during 2022-2027. The increase in…
Tesla, Inc. has signed US$5 billion worth of deals to buy nickel products from Indonesia. According to Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment, Tesla has signed a five-year contract with…
Rights advocates call on electric car makers to tackle human rights abuses in the supply chain as the transition toward electric cars and other new energy technologies, as well as the global competition to extract…
IndustriALL brought together industry experts in an online meeting to discuss and consolidate the strategy on battery supply chains. “We want to increase our leverage along the battery supply chain, which starts in the mines,…
A new report by researchers from the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP), the Plurinational Observatory of Andean Salt Flats (OPSAL), and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) highlights…