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 # Human Rights Risks From New Clean Tech – Complimentary Briefing

 


 

 Jul 10, 2018 5:00 AM ET

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Global supply chains are becoming increasingly complex, leading to a growing risk of Human Rights abuses. These mounting complications mean that even businesses in ‘clean’ sectors such as renewable energy producers and electric car manufacturers are facing questions around the human rights risks and challenges in their supply chains.  
  
In Ethical Corporation’s [latest briefing](http://1.ethicalcorp.com/LP=21200?extsource=report_alert), we look at how the expansion of clean technology may be threatened by the existence of human rights issues within extended supply chains including; land dispossession, intimidation, killings and displacement.  
  
[Click here to access your complimentary](http://1.ethicalcorp.com/LP=21200?extsource=report_alert) copy  
  
Some of the key issues include:

- **Failure to safeguard indigenous rights** in countries such as Mexico where authorities lack the resources to defend rights and indigenous people are poor and lack education
- **Lack of commitment** to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) policies
- **Challenges when sourcing raw materials** which are essential to the manufacturing process as they are often mined in a highly damaging manner to both the environment and local communities
- **Overshadowing of underlying issues by ‘clean-image’** as the renewability and competitiveness of clean technologies threaten to suppress the concerns of local communities
- Feature case study on **what Siemens are doing to tackle human rights risks deep in their supply chain** in the wake of their controversial involvement in wind energy projects in the Western Sahara.

[Click here to access your complimentary](http://1.ethicalcorp.com/LP=21200?extsource=report_alert) copy

**Media Contact:**

[Candy Telani Anton](mailto:candy.anton@ethicalcorp.com)  
Global Project Director   
+44 (0) 207 375 7162



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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