The China-U.S trade war continues, and China is leveraging the manufacturing sector’s dependence on rare earth metal exports to sway the U.S. administ...
Q&A with Cobalt Institute President David Weight
In recent years, cobalt has become an integral part of many products due to its importance in the lithium-ion battery. As the metal became more widely...
Why the Responsible Sourcing of Cobalt Goes Beyond Batteries
The lithium-ion battery enabled more mobility in electronics, enormously impacting the way we use many devices. Increased demand for the batteries — a...
Conflict Minerals Reporting: Best Practices to Meet Your Deadline
Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act obligates U.S. publicly-traded companies to demonstrate due diligence in...
Support Corporate Due Diligence with the Cobalt Reporting Template
The demand for cobalt, a key component in lithium ion batteries, has grown in recent years as mobile devices have become more ubiquitous. As a result,...
RMI Releases New CMRT Version 5.12
The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) has released the newest version of the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template, the CMRT 5.12. The April 2019 u...
Amnesty International Pushes for Companies Using Cobalt to Publish Their Supply Chain Data
Amnesty International Pushes for Companies Using Cobalt to Publish Their Supply Chain Data Amnesty International is urging companies to follow the lea...
The Experts Respond: A CSR Q&A From the Supply Chain Summit Series
At the Supply Chain Summit Series event in San Diego in February, Michael Littenberg, Partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, spoke about legal requirements ...
European Union to Introduce New Reporting Requirements for Cobalt & Neodymium
In recent years, governments around the world have shown a growing interest in the responsible sourcing of raw materials — specifically, how the sourc...
Responsible Mineral Sourcing: Insight From the U.S. Department of State & Intel
At the Supply Chain Summit Series in San Diego last month, I moderated a panel called Responsible Minerals: Past, Present, Future. It featured Pamela ...