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Shining a Light on the EV Supply Chain: A Poor Environmental and Human Rights Record

NC State SCRC

However, the general public typically doesn’t understand how supply chains work, and many don’t even know how their box of cereal ends up on their grocery store shelf. Indonesia far and away has the biggest deposits of nickel , with Phillipines, Russia, and Australia a distant second.

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Copper in flux

Resilinc

Less than four months ago, copper was setting record prices and experts were forecasting long-term supply gaps due to a collision between the growing demand for copper in clean-power technologies and the cost and difficulties of developing new mines. Of the three largest new mines cited by Goldman Sach’s Snowdon, one is in Russia.

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SCM Map Europe: European location decisions remain complex

Supply Chain Movement

Supply chains in Europe are facing a wide variety of changes. To arrive at optimal European supply chains it is crucial to consider shifts in economic growth, currency fluctuations and tax reductions in addition to production and distribution costs. By Martijn Lofvers. Key sales market. Norfolk Island. Papua New Guinea.

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