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Transport Expert Nicolas Meilhanā€™s Perspective on the EcoVadis 2019 Index Results

EcoVadis

This puts Europe at risk of becoming strongly dependent on those countries that control its supply: the Republic of Congo (50 percent of world extraction) and China, which already controls 80 percent of refining for battery applications. . Overall, the trend in the transport sector is not good. 100 against 38.8).

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Chief Green

Supply Chain Movement

Since then, evidence has emerged of other huge fires in Africaā€™s Congo Basin forest, Siberia and Indonesia. It visualizes the various trends, their impact on company departments, the supply chain challenges and possible solutions. The record number of forest fires in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil recently caused a huge public outcry.

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Do Consumers Care About Ethical Sourcing?

Logistics Viewpoints

But, in 2019, the Trump Administration stopped imports of clothing, gold, diamonds, and other items believed to have been produced with forced labor by companies based in Brazil, China, and Malaysia, as well as some gold mined in eastern Congo and diamonds from a region in Zimbabwe. The post Do Consumers Care About Ethical Sourcing?

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UFLPA Compliance: How One Volkswagen Part Led to Thousands of Impounded Luxury Cars

Resilinc

Outside of UFLPA, cobaltā€”a leading component in electric vehicle batteriesā€”is also tied to forced labor in The Democratic Republic of Congo. Learn more in our Special Report: The Future of Cobalt Mining: Top Trends and Forced Labor Compliance.

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Demand for low-carbon metals heats up

Resilinc

Nornickel’s pioneering low-carbon offers are part of a sustainable and low-carbon mining trend. The trend is driven by increasing demand from OEMs for metals produced without detriment to the atmosphere, local environments, workers, and mining communities. analysts recently.

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An update on copper

Resilinc

Minerals and metals will still be mined, but in countries with far fewer environmental protections such as Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and China,ā€ wrote the WSJ editorial board. Mining Technologyā€™s Zachary Skidmore lists a broader set of solutions to ā€œalleviate the pressure on the [copper] supply chain.ā€

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Copper in flux

Resilinc

Minerals and metals will still be mined, but in countries with far fewer environmental protections such as Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and China,ā€ wrote the WSJ editorial board. The next time a politician bemoans Americaā€™s supply-chain vulnerability, ask which specific mining project he supports.ā€.