{"id":56467,"date":"2023-07-06T08:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/05\/china-mineral-mining-green-energy"},"modified":"2023-07-06T08:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:02:45","slug":"china-accused-of-scores-of-abuses-linked-to-green-mineral-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56467","title":{"rendered":"China accused of scores of abuses linked to \u2018green mineral\u2019 mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog identifies 102 violations over past two years as country extracts \u2018transition minerals\u2019 for green-energy technology<\/p>\n<p>A new report into China\u2019s dominance in the green-energy market has identified more than a hundred allegations of environmental and human rights violations linked to its overseas transition mineral investments over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>China dominates the processing and refining of lithium, cobalt, copper, manganese, nickel, zinc, chromium, aluminium and rare-earth elements \u2013 and the manufacturing of technologies like solar panels, wind turbines and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jan\/24\/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research\">batteries for electric vehicles (EV)<\/a>, which require so-called transition minerals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/05\/china-mineral-mining-green-energy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog identifies 102 violations over past two years as country extracts \u2018transition minerals\u2019 for green-energy technologyA new report into China\u2019s dominance in the green-energy market has identified more than a hundred allegations of environmental a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,493,65,1880,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-energy","category-environment","category-green-economy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56468,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56467\/revisions\/56468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}