![]() ![]() ![]() dpa/picture alliance via Getty ImagesĪccording to Posner, an Assistant Secretary of State during the Obama Administration, children are used at the artisanal mining sites because it’s simply easier for them to access the small tunnels and holes. Tesla lithium-ion battery cells, made with cobalt, on display at the company’s Berlin Gigafactory. Tesla didn’t respond to a request for comment on the NYU/Geneva report. The proposal was defeated overwhelmingly in August 2022. Last August, CEO Elon Musk and Tesla’s board encouraged shareholders to reject a proposal that would have required the company to provide detailed reporting on its materials sourcing practices and steps to ensure it was relying on child labor, even indirectly. “Global buyers engaging in a futile attempt to avoid cobalt associated with ASM ignore the inconvenient truth that it is nearly impossible to separate the flow of ASM cobalt from the larger supply of industrially mined cobalt,” Dorotheé Baumann-Pauly, director of the Geneva Center and author of the cobalt report, said in an emailed statement. “The DRC trip provided a more nuanced view of the complex issue of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and its history within the DRC,” the company said in its most recent report, without elaborating. Tesla, in its annual environmental impact report, says it has “zero tolerance” for child labor and has sent a delegation from its “Responsible Sourcing Committee” to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past to inspect mining conditions there. ![]()
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