Purpose

This tracker seeks to improve the human rights practices of companies producing the minerals vital to the renewable energy and electric vehicle sectors by shedding light on the key human rights risks in the geographies where they operate, and the human rights policies and practices of the most important companies in this sub-sector. To this end, users can:

1. Understand who the biggest producers of six key minerals needed for the low-carbon transition are, and where they operate;
2. Explore the key human rights risks related to mining of these minerals, including key reports by partner organisations shedding light on egregious abuses;
3. Identify whether these companies have human rights policies in place;
4. Track hotspots where human rights allegations have been raised, find details and companies involved.

For more information on how the data was collected, please our methodology.

Find a company

Find a company mining transition minerals to identify whether it has a human rights policy, and whether its activity has been linked to human rights allegations and attacks on human rights defenders. This tracker includes companies and allegations covered by our global and regional research. For further details on allegations, download the full data set below.

Who should care about the human rights record of transition minerals mining companies?

Mining companies must first and foremost prevent abuse in their projects. But abuse related to transition minerals extraction impacts the whole renewable energy value chain. Renewable energy companies and their investors must demand clean supply chains for these essential minerals. Governments must insist on corporate liability if companies persist with abuse in their operations or supply chains.