Corporations in the auto industry, battery manufacturing and mining have joined forces to establish reliable due diligence reporting on raw minerals. Volvo will be among the first to move on the issue by putting its cobalt supply chain under scrutiny early next year. Swedish carmaker Volvo has joined a network of corporations with cobalt supply chains which want to audit human rights and environmental standards associated with the mineral. Raw materials sourcing is becoming a sensitive issue for big business amid numerous reports of human rights and environmental failures. Attempts to establish ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...