Course Project: Individual Draft
Introduction
My team, Team 3 Allstars, selected the topic of electric vehicles and their
negative impact on the environment for our project in this course. There are several key
issues surrounding this topic and I have been tasked with covering the ethical concerns
regarding child labor and the lack of regulations in countries who supply these raw
materials.
Draft
The production of electric vehicles requires multiple raw materials such as cobalt,
lithium, copper, graphite and nickel. One pressing issue surrounding these raw
materials is the distinct lack of governance for these supply chains. Over the past several
years, the increasing conflict risks of cobalt sourcing has gathered attention internationally
and some civil and private groups have added the responsible sourcing of cobalt to their
directives. Unfortunately, the conflict risks surrounding other minerals such as lithium and
nickel are still mostly unknown and therefore left out of much of the current governance
over the mineral supply chain.
Although we have witnessed several states, international agencies and private sector
entities introduce legislation and other guidance designed to address a number of these
issues by impeding the flow of conflict minerals while advocating for more responsibly and
sustainably sourced mineral supply chains, there remains a large gap between these new
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