Electric vehicles are often presented as a key technology for drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thus helping curb climate change.

But manufacturing electric cars requires the mining of critical minerals for batteries, like lithium and cobalt, that are largely sourced in developing countries. Local traditional and Indigenous communities say the mining is already harming their way of life, damaging biodiversity, and polluting.

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