IHRB’s Haley St. Dennis provided an overview of the business and human rights value-add to the cobalt sector’s understanding of just transitions around the world at the 2022 annual meeting of the Cobalt Institute.
The session is the industry association's first-ever session convened to explore the cobalt sector’s role in supporting a rights-respecting approaches to net-zero energy transitions – a concept broadly referred to as just transitions. The cobalt sector itself is new to the concept of just transitions but plays a critical role when it comes to transitioning to a net zero future, supplying a metal critical to battery supply chains for electric vehicles and wind energy storage.
This session explores where activities undertaken by the cobalt sector intersect, and where there may be distinctions and variations in understanding, in order to unlock synergies and possible next steps for faster progress.
Other speakers included:
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Bettina Reinboth, Director of Human Rights and Social Issues, PRI
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Charlotte Hugman, Lead Researcher Climate & Energy Benchmark, World Benchmarking Alliance
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Benjamin Katz, Policy Advisor, OECD
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Assheton Stewart Carter, CEO of Fair Cobalt Alliance
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Moderated by Anna Triponel, Founder of Human Level
