Solar Panel and Electric Vehicle Information
Town & Parishes Challenged
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Slave Labour
08 Nov 2021 ‘Like slave and master’: DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars (PDF)
03 Jan 2021 Child labour, toxic leaks: the price we could pay for a greener future (PDF)
19 Jan 2016 Amnesty International - Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries (PDF)
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2016 Amnesty International - 'This is What we Die For' Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republicl of the Congo Power the Global Trade in Cobalt (PDF)
2021 Freedom United - Do children have the right to decent work? (Video 1hr 10mins)
Renewable Energy Statistics
Solar
Aug 22 Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash (PDF)
15 Aug 17 Leaching of cadmium and tellurium from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panels under simulated landfill conditions (PDF)
More home solar installations lead to more off grid/lithium batteries required
EV
Fires
Mining & Strategy
08 Aug 2023 The new commodity superpowers In the first part of a series, countries that produce the metals central to the energy transition want to rewrite the rules of mineral extraction (PDF)
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July 2023 John Penrose MP Carbon Competiveness (PDF)
13 Mar 2023 UK Govt's Critical Minerals Strategy (PDF)
2022 Share of cumulative power capacity by technology (PDF)
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