Topic: Critical minerals

Critical minerals are fundamental to the global economy. As well as being used in tech products, they are essential component of the transition to clean energy. But the rapidly rising demand for these commodities is harming the environment and threatening basic rights of people living in mining areas.

Our work on critical minerals is focused on how companies along the supply chain can be held to account for these harms, whether through private sector policies or regulations.

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