Renewables sector linked to modern slavery abuses
ReportsEvidence has emerged linking supply chains for renewable energy products to modern slavery and human rights abuses, says a new report by the Clean Energy Council of Australia and law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Abuses most often occur in the later tiers of the supply chain and are hard to document. The main points of exposure include the manufacture of components and the extraction of raw materials. In some instances, such as producing polysilicon, a key component in solar panels, the primary market that uses the product linked to modern slavery is renewable energy. In other cases, renewable energy is just one of many end users.
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