Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses

Inside Climate News · By Katie Surma · last updated May 6, 2024 – 1:19 AM

A new report highlights more than 400 allegations against mining companies operating in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, home to large deposits of minerals used in low-carbon technologies.

By Katie Surma

As high-consuming economies like the United States and Europe move to supplant fossil fuels with low-carbon technologies, a race is on to extract and process critical minerals for use in electric vehicles, wind turbines, transmission lines and solar panels.

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