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• Enabling a Just Transition to Electric Mobility: The Integration of the Informal Mining Sector
  Posted in publication on 25 June 2024

  The case study highlights the need for companies to support the formalization of artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to address human rights abuses and ensure a just energy transition.

• Financial Times’ Caselet
  Posted in newspublication on 11 September 2023

  This Financial Times’ caselet authored by Michael Posner (NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights) and Dorothee Baumann-Pauly focuses on the human rights challenges in the cobalt supply chain.

• Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Addressing Root Causes of Human Rights Abuses
  Posted in publication on 8 February 2023

  As demand for cobalt used in electric vehicles and smart devices skyrockets, this new white paper by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly urges dramatic changes to mining practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Ethics of cobalt mining must be taken seriously by traders
  Posted in newspublication on 22 March 2022

  Prof. Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and Prof. Michael Posner co-authored the Financial Times op-ed titled “Ethics of Cobalt Mining Must Be Taken Seriously by Traders”.

• “Stand Strong Together for Human Rights”
  Posted in news on 17 March 2022

  In an interview with AUDI AG, our director Dorothee Baumann-Pauly reiterates that human rights is central to the green energy transition.