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thousands of people in the democratic republic of congo, d, r c. supplying materials for global revolution. what they mining key is in high demand around the world. cobalt industrial countries urgently need the medical to make that change the house of all the electric vehicles in the race to slow climate change. cobalt has become key to the transition away from fossil fuels. paying the products the economy because of the need. a new era, dw reno, bmw, volvo,

all the big names. the conversion live plants to electric, environmental concerns a driving transition consumer on commercial internal combustion vehicles produce about a quote for greenhouse gas emissions in your other fox fog hopkins, oma hines, come up volkswagen, and did 1200000000 euros in the side of the it's dedicated especially to the 6th grade cars we started making here, one of those to be everything was adapted and now we're 100 percent electric house . we billed 100 percent electric cars here electro show and devote i know not present lectures out to see how the sourcing and 20 says you find the jew intends to prohibit the sale of new cost with internal combustion engines. the far reaching decision impacts the whole production chain. if you want to, to achieve the climate neutrality in uh, 30 years,

if you need to use all the technologies which are available, we are now on disputed number one. if it comes to investment into the about 30 seconds or so, we are super hot zone for an investment until the about tories it to me. so it's got into the head 1st. 70 projects on going be, be, have more than $120000000.00 units of investment over the last 3 years, which is a city and a half times more than uh, the money invested in china in the same sector. and so that's we are going to create a lot of just jobs and as i said, it's completely new investors most electric car batteries. and you are the based on the co manganese cobalt o n m c technology which allows them to travel around 400 kilometers off to one charge. the batteries contain lithium and about 10 kilograms of cobalt. if you look at the average high,

high capacity of battery, so the sort of thing used in tesla or volkswagen id 3. most of it is nickel. nickel is what gives the battery is extremely high range cable. it's effectively the safety mechanism. so you put a little bit of cable in you about tray, and that means that you won't have that 2 fires and fuel cells or will remain stable under extreme duress. the vast majority of cable comes from the democratic republic of congo. and that's essentially because there isn't really anywhere else in the wealth which has the same grades. so mineralogy for cable has become good. it's really, there isn't really any other country and the wealth which contains house the same call to see if the pulses quality of reserves. and it's almost like the 70 ravia of cables. the

congo has been less or cost, depending on how $1.00 looks at it. with extraordinary geological, mineral wealth, the and it's always been strategic whether it was in the 19th century robber or the middle of the 20th century uranium. or more recently, the question of strategic critical minerals for the agenda that the international community has adopted. the consensus that we need to move to carbon neutral, the emissions and the world requires electric vehicles. it requires renewable

energy, all of which require strategic minerals coming out of the congo. first and foremost, one could say, might be, would be called on. coal lazy is the cobalt capital of the world. way here in the house with a call to build an industrial region location, the southern part of the sea and neighboring sand. beyond a century of mining shapes, the landscape, the, the seas. because copper and co bolts is this a notation from the provinces of new lava and applicants hung up the phone. corporations are exploring the cement swell of the 19 copico, both mines in the region 15 owned by the chinese nations of business, with the swiss glencoe group. which operates to the most most productive months. and you ration resources good. cable is transported

normally by truck down to south africa as loaded on ships and um and, and then it ships from the oven uh to china for is processed into box or chemicals . um and from there ends up in the water supply chain right now, global to mont, for k, both is in the region of 840000 tons 150, maybe. um, but we're expecting that to rise to 250 in the next 5 years. and there's a loss of new demand which is going to come on to the market. and we'll, we're going to need to find supply for a ton of cobalt constituent and $70000.00 us dollars on the market. the mineral, which often occurs together with casa, has an live and mining corporation. since the battery market exploded 10 use to the they are making more and more profits. well,

residents in the mining regions even less than $2.00 a day, maybe it would be less. okay. what about us, the, the people who live in the area around the mines of it. so you've seen what co ways it looks like the fact that there are no schools like these hospitals or streets and there's other people who don't have access to drinking water. he likes that little, even those who do have water can drink it a little because it's contaminated with acid and member land that you the natural waterways that were in a few of the villages have already been poisoned. don't like disney, disney mining is tending to make the people poor still, instead of bringing better living conditions to that media away, you can do something dvd popular, some of my, some thoughts here. campbell, not as a lawyer and a human rights activist. he's investigating the impact of the battery markets. the local population loss is only the consequences are already apparent at the facilities of the chinese congress company. single means and let's go to well

and do you see those trucks over there, dumping out waste in? that's what i called overburden or tailings from the mines in the mountains. if it had been built out where there weren't any 5 years ago, you bought it, but not i says all physical and stuff during the dry season. the dust drips down onto the fields here, difficult to think of what it got to be in a new, really new plot to sort through. then there's a thick layer of dust on the plants around us. is that that was, it was yeah, that's it. that's why people are growing hardly anything at all. here is google bicyclist as well because of that, does that comes from the tailings pounds over there? you know, the, the, the home licking solar. yeah. yeah. because of the test, but also because of the water quality in the river in front of us, you know, you know, yeah, like i do, it's kind of what we've been in a little too many water in there, basins overflows and the acid in its split is our feels you're welcome to send me over. how old is the money up here? and if i'm on my mind right now for the 3 years, 3 years ago,

not almost nothing's on the. could you dig out a route for things? yes, that's quite small. the garages are up to 3 years. it'd be much bigger. something. what do you live on when the money across his port sheet? so i got to pick the money up. he said the minute i'm selling them on the market in order to get money to buy food. i mean, that's what i would assume this to stick with me know about this problem. i know you're welcome. yeah. to begin with. they supplied us with drinking water, but that silver, perhaps they thought, it's not so bad if they die. when i'm, when i wouldn't mind one from sick, i mean she has to mean she'd come and have a look at how we live here. i see one of them through what i see the doctor tries to the governments to were citizens, doctor, we got a when i new and you know me when i come here regularly, when you say our work isn't progressing, i assume when i get to meet up and doubles, but since we took over your case,

we haven't given up got to go back up on the web eyes when your representatives come to quote ways when they see that we're putting pressure on the authorities id my we my c, we've just taken up the case again, lose young. you called me, it's now with an advisor to the governor. you know, but i mean, i see thanks for your attention to that that will stay in contact with your community leader. to buy got units for the same. you gotta go mazda, so soon as she lives, when a mine is opened, his passport is the people lose their farm land we, the village is get poisoned, come on to the and the residents have to give up their traditional way of life. there's junkie early on, but as bushes and that is nobody goes into the bush anymore together, caterpillars and insects because there aren't any, there doesn't. does any of these yet? you won't be at no one fishes in the river anymore. yeah. so i'm going that because there's no more fish. when the water flows through the mining area has little got

him on the spot has been out of yet. this is not the points because of the there has to be clear policy guidance, money that mine operators provide compensation for consequences like this. the gaming and related issues but vision. but as i said it or does the congo least government to staying out of it? complete like to live onto a piece and the mining companies and the end users of the cobalt are ignoring the problems you know the industrial mines and you would not buttoned up like a tank produced. 80 percent of companies, cobalt. the remaining 20 percent comes from all chase and oh mine and beneath the orange tops prospect, his work and shots deep below the surface. the dealer is one of them is also one of a 150000 people who stream dean from across the country. driven by prophecy.

they're hoping to get a piece of the pie, the vehicle picking that i came the seller nice and can shop. so it was hard. yeah, but i lost my job and they fired me up with my family said you can't go on like this. i know without work and i couldn't pay the rent. could i sell it? we'll see if i'm using a key, i thought they said go to cold ways. it might be that there's cobalt there and you can earn a living was $82.00. so i came here and became a global prospector. crazy and i've never done it before. they put in me a flat slip, they, me one, and i have, these are the,

it was the go button in a while to something the, to the, the, the, the way the why you know what is that is that it is i'm out of these are what's not, this is mining with your hand, but you go down the shaft, break up the stone with a crowbar and fill the sacks. then the carriers go down and bring the sack. so those of us that much. so all you cool that this was the one that you said the dig up and still the sacks. then we've done our jobs because the carriers carry it out,

pulling one bag after the other to the surface of mobile mobile by like some of the women then wash the or in the leg i. e. we pay the women and the carriers and sell the or at the warehouse upgrade to the an amazing entity a month and i was scared to death. the 1st time. when i got down there i started to shake all the others laughed. i think looking on my big they laughed at me because i was shaking so much that you know, my baby was sick. 9 at them lay the drum. they fully met. i was shaking with fear, but there was no going back. even though i'm a man, after all, i must go down there. well, no matter if i was afraid. so new, not many clues, old prospectus, acute demand slides for drown. one who wants to mind. thousands of families rely on what little governments and industry allowed them to mind from their own land.

the government has been trying to reconnect the seasonal mining sick just for 20 years. the law says those involved must have joined the cooperative. but in reality, if the structure is a very high, rocky for simple workers have no shares in their minds nor say in their operation. autism mining is a really important thing to track because it's probably the only source of swing supply in the global market is the only source of cable supply which can go up or down depending on prices. the vast majority of cable mines today is either by products of copper or byproducts of nickel. and if you own a, must've caught the cable mind, for example. um,

the vast majority of your money is made on the call. so that the price of cable, somebody shoots up, you're not going to increase your. ready production rate, because you, you can't run the valve cover is great, the price of cable is going up and it increases your, your cable value, but you're not going to increase supply to meet the additional, the monkey costs because it's a byproducts. um the one accepts the more or less is autism. oh minus that's the real cobalt. that's the yield for my mind. shall we take out 350 sacks and a full day of work on something consequently of 350. yes. if the scale is calibrated correctly, a sack weighs 20 kilo little regulation on a chinese manipulate their scale to cheat c. so it turns out to be only 10, but normally it's one. and then the other one must have income matrix. i end up

getting plus get ok, new problem with this and then the measuring device might not work. then they give you a different cobalt contents for the same product. i know, but we're forced to deal with the chinese. they cheat when it comes to the cobalt content of the order, but we have to sell to the single bundle. and then they come here and serve themselves who they exploit us and leave on slow anywhere card. and they're nothing. your neighbors little settings and they've been able repository. so the, so both mine is primarily sells it onto chinese entrepreneurs who are pushing into the congo. oscar and initial processing stage. they expose the middle to farm foundries on

the back door here, but really be near the body shop in the boom. it is. i know it's a, it's a big ok. i'm ready to go pick up the machines. i wonder why it wouldn't be go. i don't know who it was. that was the who, the concepts and build the

tooth out there. my when i pay for them, i hit the rock until it breaks, then i know consigned, is there a traces of black? i know that it's got tables and that's maybe that will end up in an e cause smoke. so what are the, this is my 1st trip to co lazy. what struck me most was just how the whole city

was built around the mining industry around and on top of these, these minerals. and just this very, very, very strong feeling that these people, the people living they should be benefiting from this extraordinary wealth. which is generating prosperity for chinese companies. you are being companies, american companies, but they're suffering, they're not the ones benefiting from this. you know, this particular came home and in some parts of the city where homes have a being demolished, to make waves kicks the expansion of industrial mines. it comes home in the parts of the city where people are digging down into the basements of the houses around the ground to access the cables. it's extremely dysfunctional. i'm as engineers to is had a program on corporate accountability and the role that companies play in human rights abuses around the world for about 15 years now. and we've,

we've had done previous projects in the d o. c, looking at the mining industry but, but primarily focused on the, the big industrial mines. you know, during the reading about those things, some basic research about this revealed to me, you know, obviously it's not a secret for anyone in the day i'll see. but the, the autism mining sector was becoming increasingly large, particularly when it came to cobalt. the chris, the diggers were risking their lives in the health to take this, this, this mccloud, they're also not receiving probably very few receiving a set price for that labor. they're being exploited financially. we found the children, the youngest 7 rate, but also involved in this, in this industry. no family wants that children to work. low child,

low 7 year old wants to be spending all day on entering it, entering illegally into the compound and spend a whole day picking up stones from the ground at risk of being beaten pulled, roped. no one wants to do that. the doing that because the forced by circumstances the does. that's how they that's how that they're able to afford, you know, small amount. the,

the main point is that the report with it as much as 20 percent of the total was coming from a to mines in the d. c. we wanted to know where this cable went, who was buying this, which companies which tech companies, using the mobile phone manufacturers, the laptop manufacturers were using this cable in the batteries and what were they doing to to understand the supply chain and understand these conditions? the response we got, so this report drawing the links to, you know, from child labor, autism mining the cable industry linking these mines to these famous brands,

had a massive the media pick up much more than we were expecting . no company, car manufacturer or other in a consumer of cobble wants to be labeled as benefiting from child labor. it's terrible publicity. it hurts, share value. if it is wrong and consumers don't like it. so it's, it's bad for business even if you are ethically atrophied and don't care on the other. if you're only self interest that you should still be against it because it's, it's bad for business. i remember when of the wealth really stuff and paying attention to autism, no binding. it was in 2016 with the publication of the amnesty reports and we had

clients who would get in touch with us and we would, they would say we want known the all c cables for you, but i want to. so if any of our cable from the d. c, child labor isn't the comic because the only problem to transition to electric vehicles or a v says make them aware of how dependent they are on conch lease cobalt and on the batteries that are manufactured primarily in asia. that's why the, you would prove to major actually development project in 2017 if you want to make sure that you're a vill also in the future, produce the best but also the sub time, most sustainable car. so you cannot simply do it. if you import the battery from somebody else without, that's a traceability, valid suspecting, going to be standards because they're making sure that the carbon footprint is, is the lowest possible. and therefore we started with a little piano about city l,

i s, and therefore we are doing this, i would say, uh fantastic, catching up with china. so it was a bit of a late start because we didn't of simply in the car industry perceive to city for yours, the goals that i like to mobility will be here. so, so now, but it's a totally different story right now. this is actually held only good for europe and good for texting, the climate change. but there are very clear benefits for that, for the local communities and the for them of new jobs. new investments are possibilities and clear commitment to us that everything has to be done. 100 percent of just 10 percent of the world's batteries are produced in europe in order to gain ground by 2035. the e. u wants to build around 13 to factories and make the course of the global supply on it's time several heck to is the 1st of all very being sacrificed for the new industry and sweden. the swedish company most volts,

has built the 1st enormous battery factory in europe, squaring off against ation manufacturers. north. what was founded almost 5 years ago by peter costs and the swedish guy and publish it with the italian guy. they found each other working for, for tesla, be in european both of them. they then obviously start to look towards europe, which is a part of the world where we have 20 something 1000000 vehicles produced every year . we have 1314000000 people work in this industry. and if you believe the hypothesis that all of these cars that we produce are going to go electric, not having batteries produced that scale, it's always going to be a critical thing for you. and that was sort of the premise for the idea on of north of came about. so they move back to you and the started north for that was the made . fortunately, 2016 as a company we brought in more than $6500000000.00 sort of investment. we've been

fortunate to have a lot of the, the well established car manufacturers on board from an early stage b, m. w was perhaps the 1st one in 2018 volkswagen. it's a big both customer and investor in north pole than most recently we announced a joint venture together with all the cars with them to build and all the one of these giga factories in order to have independent rule materials for the new factory factories. you, this operation and number of mining projects resists of cobalt would be an identified in sweden, no way and finland the there are now to nichol cobalt mines authorizing that and 7 movement of being developed. finland has dozens of deposit, so critical minerals and this opened lodge areas to mining the

. we have just started mine day below when pro se is in the core. some of that area has been thoroughly investigated by a former states company. and then another company after that seems early ninety's. so there's a lot of material that has been drilled from that area. and we have also done some drilling. it's promising at this moment, the power in depth a foot do like to discuss profitable minus the international energy association estimates that we need about 20 times more coal, both to the world markets that we have now. no seen life cannot and will not provide. that's all we can provide some, some of that spot,

but it's very cold. and for the, for example, that com manufacturer to have possibilities. the traceability is going to be the c r p and um, sir, to the chinese china dominated production. what comes to coal about finland is the only e u member that has deposits of all the minerals needed so that trees 300 kilometers from the arctic circle. the company total salma has reactivated the mine in salt. come. it was closed in 2012 off the top since leaked the surrounding waterways and lakes. a total salma is run by the finished government entrusted good on a rule materials trading company that has been convicted of environmental crimes in

africa. facilities supplies brenda with nickel, fruits, east many people in europe, the opposite of the wrong view on the mining activities. people still say uh, i mean the minus with the headlights on, on the, on the physical kind of working risk of working. but of course, the modern mining is, is, this is not the big to what to be proud of us here in, instead of home, it is the bucket of chemicals. so it's a nick, us out a foot. and a coal. both sulfate does to be produced from the role with the rest of the mine our cells. so we have a mining violated thing and then we we purchased for the end of the but that it can cost me for luca cobalt, the production capacity. so $7400.00 tons of other critical sulfate again for both of the application and which is roughly for $300000.00 and that's

a go where he goes. but on the contract uh we put in all those colors uh, almost one 3rd of our production capacity. but uh well this, the, the main thing from our perspective is that the doctor now we going to be the rental uh, building a supply chain from all the way from mining activities to but that it can make calls, kept that, not that a else, but the sales to that was a car manufacturing does these sustainable on the so, so we have a a uh of course being in europe and you and you're gonna be have of course a lot of forklift that the environment the mother saw in, in, in taken care. you know, a couple of minor human rights labor rights in, you know, good order. according to the

e. u commission by 20 says either should be at least 30 meeting and electric vehicles on your ups roads. yet to reach this goal, 1010 or farm of factors would be needed to supply the cobalt alone. and i think that the administration in your business on the reflection of the high prices that we have now, they all going to run into the issues of the call and see if there is this. you know, i've seen, i've seen mining projects which of those days about having point 08 percent cables in the old grade in the congo. some cable results can be as high as like 3 or 4 percent kribble. you know, for autism will sources. suddenly, in the congo some off, there's no minus slice of such high cable that you can sort of pick up a rock and it has sort of a slight blue green tint. and you can tell us times like 10 percent cable, you're not going to get anywhere in your was it's high operation costs low yields.

you will never be a cobalt el dorado. but it could scroll peak in another case sector recycling. within a decade, 10 percent of all the volts cobalt could be recycled. the built in company, you me cool is a leader in this market. it says that in the future it will be able to recycle nearly a 100 percent of the cobalt from batteries we started with. that's where you're recycling with recycling of mobile phone batteries. but knowing that electric vehicles would be just a matter of time, because indeed, the circularity, the compliment complementarity of mining on the one hand, which you still need today. but it would be a ways to not recycle of products like coal, both and be less dependence on the on lightning. for example. yeah, it will reflect thing is a huge, huge the important market to investigate for about your muscles. because because

the english steve a selectable, it becomes a huge source of supply within your demand for within your supply full cost, especially in the long time when we build $10.00. ready 20 year folk costs the cables of nickel and $50.00, and it becomes extremely important to understand the circularity of the supply chains. firstly, because obviously is a huge amount of material that's going to be coming back into the supply chain. but secondly, because it changes where the supply comes from starting in 2035, the batteries of easy sold in the year will be required to contain at least 20 percent recycled cobalt. volkswagen is a very operating over cycling facility. the future johns of european factory production vehicle in france and most bolt in sweden have already taken that into consideration. if they do to factories the strong materials that we need

for battery metals, they are recyclable by nature and you can recycle them over and over again. so it's really about mining the ones and then using them forever. and, and that is the fundamental difference in this change here. and obviously given at the speed for rolling this market, currently we're going to take a few decades. it's going to take a while to get to a point where you have a set market, you know, one car in one car out type of market. but once you get there, you could all these data very circular feet of, for all materials. so in 10 years, for example, the 1st generation of electric vehicles in europe comes of the comes of the rows and if one starts, scrapping them and buying new vehicles that cable these batteries will be recycled in europe. and that'll be fed into the european supply chain, which means the over time, because of that dislike thing, leap come countries and regions will have a reduced dependence on african minerals.

when the m, as 2 reports of 2016, the mining industry was forced to make it supplant, changed, or transparent. then in 2019 d. c t port to get the most important company sort of form in coal lazy. the aim was to support them in tracing cobalt how dementia, woods, due diligence. we represent the largest companies in the world that have a common vision to ensure that the minerals and metals sourcing and responsible and contribute positively. the social and economic development due diligence is a process where by companies are supposed to map the

supply chains or the business relationships and operations and identify in what way those business relationships or supply chains might be linked to human rights abuses. and if that means guy all the way to the point of a extraction, then so be it. and the fact that we and others have exposed, you know, range of human rights abuses out the mind means that they absolutely should go back and, and understand that risk due diligence also involves a as good as mitigating those risks. so it's not just a question of understanding what's going on, but will submit to mitigating them because it's a means to an end and the end is preventing human rights abuses. many manufacturers commission to service provider all c global to discover the conditions under which the cobalt was being mined. the company monitors industrial mines and

just trying to integrate the hot seasonal mines in to, to the agents programs for decades. that's been a lot of conversations that are on how to improve it as a mining not much has actually been achieved in that regard right now. in reality, the child's name is not the only risk, like i said, the moist prevalence risk on as i'm science. i so, and it isn't on it's most got mining sides by 5 is working conditions at the moment we had 8 cooled s. m science. that is the target to scale to 12, and by the end of next year, you're absolutely right to say that it is an it'd be, it's as long as most come on side of course. and the reason for that is that you have around about 2 minutes has a minus in the country. if i look at the overall program and you see there's around about city 3000 minus that i asked me on the, on the monitoring from uh, you know, that it's a bit of money program. if you take some older miners from all the different

mindsets and the conservation, right, you drive incremental improvement, you cannot in any way improve every single sites at the same speed at the same time . as in the past, the emphasis continues to be on child labor and with good reason, there was still thousands of children working in the small mines in the law, but it many in g o say that as a result of the other problems which cannot be solved which you diligence like, forced resettlement, without appropriate compensation, environmental pollution, and corruption, and a pushed into the background. meanwhile, millions of these continued to drive on our streets, powered by co home from the combo and the every day.

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