The Cost of Clean Cars:
Mapping Mining Harms in Europe’s EV Supply Chains.
To ensure a globally just green transition, the public needs to know where the critical minerals for e-mobility are coming from. Together with our partners, Friction Point Research is advancing a new methodology for tracing the battery materials for electric vehicles “from model to mine”, enabling regulators and civil society to hold carmakers accountable for mining harms occurring at lower tiers in their supply chains.
This end-to-end mapping is crucial as major automotive companies and battery manufacturers are racing to secure access to critical raw materials and mining operations--a global resource scramble that is reshuffling electric vehicle supply chains and posing serious environmental and social risks.
Click the button below for our pilot policy brief, co-authored with Lucia Barcena and Mads Barbesgaard (Transnational Institute), Cristian Trujillo (Resource Matters), Johanna Sydow (Heinrich-Böll Foundation), and Anabel Marin and Gabriel Palazzo (Institute of Development Studies).
This project is supported by a Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellowship from the University of Sussex.
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