'We urgently need a reset': Are miners of transition minerals doing enough to tackle 'surge' in human rights allegations?

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New report warns human rights and environmental abuses linked to mining for minerals critical to the switch to clean energy are threatening to undermine the net zero transition

Major mining companies involved in the global rush to extract the so-called transition minerals required by clean technology industries are continuing to be linked to a surge in human rights abuses, environmental...

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