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A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn

Mining critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt fuels the "green" energy and digital transitions essential to meeting climate goals. But building the technologies that enable a sustainable future is generating severe, hidden environmental and health crises that the world is failing to track or address, warns a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), known as the UN's Think Tank on Water.
A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn
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