Research identifies human rights abuses in battery supply chain - The Engineer
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Supply chain changes are needed to eliminate widespread forced labour and child labour abuses occurring in the lithium-ion battery market, Infyos has found.

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  • Research from Infyos has identified that companies accounting for 75 per cent of the global battery market have connections to one or more companies in the supply chain facing allegations of severe human rights abuses.

  • Most of the allegations of severe human rights abuses involve companies mining and refining raw materials in China that end up in batteries globally, particularly in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China.

  • “The relative opaqueness of battery supply chains and the complexity of supply chain legal requirements means current approaches like ESG audits are out of date and don’t comply with new regulations. Most battery manufacturers and their customers, including automotive companies and grid-scale battery energy storage developers, still don’t have complete supply chain oversight," says Sarah Montgomery, CEO & co-founder, Infyos.

  • Supply chain changes are needed to eliminate widespread forced labour and child labour abuses occurring in the lithium-ion battery market, Infyos added.

  • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
    181·
    3 months ago

    It turns out when the vast majority of lithium comes from a country known for being iffy on the whole ‘human rights’ thing, this is what you get.

    • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      wHaTaBoUt!?¹?

      Also, it’s a lot easier for most people to boycott American meat than it is to boycott Chinese batteries.

        • robotica@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          3 months ago

          USA is trying to rid itself of corruption and slavery, China is actively promoting it. Context matters.

            • robotica@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              3 months ago

              The US isn’t some homogenous entity where all decisions are unanimous and everybody agreed to child labour. The government has little say in what people who are allowed in to freely travel decide to do, and sometimes those people decide to do bad things.

              I’m not defending the entirety of the US here, I’m just agreeing with @OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world that in this case, it is whataboutism because you are attacking the US instead of defending China.

              Whataboutism or whataboutery is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.

              According to wikipedia