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Turning Cobalt Wealth into Community Prosperity: A Landmark Convening at Bellagio
Last week, at the prestigious The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center on the shores of Lake Como, a diverse group of global stakeholders gathered to tackle the complex challenges and unlock opportunities linked to the artisanal and small-scale copper-cobalt sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): How can the country’s vast artisanal copper-cobalt wealth be […]
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Cobalt Credit System – From Idea to Proof of Concept
Context To facilitate the market acceptance of responsibly produced ASM copper-cobalt, the Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA) – together with Fairphone, a co-founding member of the FCA – launched the Cobalt Credits (CC) mechanism in August 2023 through the purchase of cobalt credits worth approximately USD 12,000 for around 2.5 tonnes of cobalt from the mine […]
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ASM Cobalt’s role and the green energy transition: championing equitable supply
As we launch into 2022, we’re also reflecting on the progress we made at the Fair Cobalt Alliance in 2021. Last year, we welcomed new members from across the battery supply chain and stepped up our operations to improve mine sites, support child labour remediation and much more.
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