Companies including Patagonia, Scania, Triodos Bank and Volkswagen Group have recently joined a movement that is calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining. They are among brands that have pledged to keep such materials linked to deep-sea mining out of their supply chains. The companies pulling rank include BMW, Google, Philips, the battery maker Samsung SDI, and Volvo, all of which have emphasized the need to explore alternative approaches to deep-sea mining. These companies have proposed solutions that include the development of sustainable land mining practices and a transition toward using materials that can be a part of a more closed-loop system.
“Volkswagen is continuously working on sustainable mobility solutions for future generations,” Volkswagen’s Dr. Frauke Eßer said in a statement. “This includes high standards for responsibly shaped raw material supply chains. Seabed mining poses severe environmental risks that we take very seriously, and that drives us to support the call for a moratorium.”
Concerns over deep-sea mining
The deployment of clean energy technologies, including electric vehicles (EVs), solar photovoltaics, wind energy and energy storage systems has in turn sparked high demand for minerals that are often difficult to find, including copper, cobalt, nickel, lithium and manganese. For example, a typical electric vehicle requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional vehicle, and onshore wind needs nine times the amount of materials than...
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