Effects-Resource Extraction: Difference between revisions
From WikiDemocracy
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 53: | Line 53: | ||
[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/04/sustainable-mining-uplink-radio-davos-podcast/ by Robin Pomeroy 30/4/24 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/04/sustainable-mining-uplink-radio-davos-podcast/ by Robin Pomeroy 30/4/24 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | ||
“Whether it's semiconductors or cars or cellphones or the toothpaste that you use to brush your teeth in the morning, it all depends on the mining industry in one way or the other,” says Vivek Salgaocar, director of the Vimson Group and Prospect Innovation. “So if we can actually tackle these issues at the source, we're truly then greening our supply chain. I think that has very, very far reaching ramifications.” | “Whether it's semiconductors or cars or cellphones or the toothpaste that you use to brush your teeth in the morning, it all depends on the mining industry in one way or the other,” says Vivek Salgaocar, director of the Vimson Group and Prospect Innovation. “So if we can actually tackle these issues at the source, we're truly then greening our supply chain. I think that has very, very far reaching ramifications.” | ||
=====Backed by International Investors, Mining Companies Line Up to Expand in or Near the Amazon’s Indigenous Territories===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22022022/backed-by-international-investors-mining-companies-line-up-to-expand-in-or-near-the-amazons-indigenous-territories/ by Katie Surma 22/2/22 Inside Climate News] | |||
U.S.-based financial institutions are among their top funders, according to a new report by Amazon Watch and the Association of Brazil’s Indigenous People, or APIB. In the past, those mining companies caused environmental damage that sickened Indigenous communities, stirred social discontent and contributed to the “trail of destruction” of the Amazon rainforest. | |||
