Research identifies human rights abuses in battery supply chain
Supply chain changes are needed to eliminate widespread forced labour and child labour abuses occurring in the lithium-ion battery market.
Research from Infyos has identified that companies accounting for 75 per cent of the global battery market have connections to one or more companies in the supply chain facing allegations of severe human rights abuses.
This new industry data is compiled from evidence on Infyos’ AI supply chain risk platform using thousands of government datasets, NGO reports, news articles and social media sources.
The AI-driven platform is said to be working with some of the world’s largest renewable energy and automotive companies to combine open-source data with additional proprietary data sources to identify which companies a customer may be connected to across the supply chain and where there is exposure to, or allegations of, human rights abuses.
In a statement, Tony To, Infyos co-founder & CTO, said: “We’ve created a system that delivers accurate data despite the complexity of the battery industry and most importantly provides users with simple actionable mitigations to collaborate with their suppliers to address risks and improve the sustainability of the industry.”
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