Certified Trading Chains in Mineral Production

Franken, Gudrun; Vasters, Jürgen; Dorner, Ulrike; Schütte, Philip; Küster, D.; Näher, Uwe

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“…Monitor impacts of mineral production and consumption: Establish a system for tracking mineral use along the entire value chain, from source to end-oflife, perhaps based on the "fingerprinting" developed by the German Geological Survey for tantalum 42,43 Incorporate a global chain-of-custody programme similar to that of the food industry. Promote domestic production and consumer cognizance of mineral use incorporating a notion of "metal miles"; i.e.…”

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Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance

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Successful delivery of the United Nations sustainable development goals and implementation of the Paris Agreement requires technologies that utilize a wide range of minerals in vast quantities. Metal recycling and technological change will contribute to sustaining supply, but mining must continue and grow for the foreseeable future to ensure that such minerals remain available to industry. New links are needed between existing institutional frameworks to oversee responsible sourcing of minerals, trajectories for mineral exploration, environmental practices, and consumer awareness of the effects of consumption. Here we present, through analysis of a comprehensive set of data and demand forecasts, an interdisciplinary perspective on how best to ensure ecologically viable continuity of global mineral supply over the coming decades.

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Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance

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“…This has not been systematically taken into account in existing criticality assessment methods and forms a link to sustainability assessment [148]. The example of coltan mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo showed in the past that strategic importance of raw materials, in this case tantalum, can also aggravate and catalyze armed conflicts in producer countries [149,150]. In addition, overuse of ecosystems and degradation of further natural resources by the extraction of raw materials can lead to violent conflicts [124,147,151,152].…”

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Dematerialization—A Disputable Strategy for Resource Conservation Put under Scrutiny

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Abstract:Dematerialization is a paradigm in resource conservation strategies. Material use should be reduced so that resource consumption as a whole can be lowered. The benefit for humankind should be completely decoupled from the natural expenditure by a definite factor X. Instinctively, this approach is convincing, because our entire value-added chain is based on material transformation. Targets for mass-based indicators are found within the context of justification for ecological carrying capacity and intergenerational fairness, taking into account the economic and socio-political expectation of raw material scarcity. However, in light of further development of material flow indicators and the related dematerialization targets, the question arises as to what they actually stand for and what significance they have for resource conservation. Can it be assumed that pressure on the environment will decline steadily if the use of materials is reduced, whether for an economy or at the level of individual products or processes? The present narrative review paper has discussed this issue and takes into account the authors' experience of the extended political and scientific discourse on dematerialization in Germany and Europe. As a result, a high "resource relevance" cannot be inferred from high physical material inputs at any of the levels considered. It has been shown that establishing mass-based indicators as control and target variables is questionable and that dematerialization exclusively based on such indicators without mapping other resources should be critically examined.

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Certified Trading Chains in Mineral Production

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Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance

Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance

Dematerialization—A Disputable Strategy for Resource Conservation Put under Scrutiny

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