Critical Minerals, water insecurity, injustice
クリティカルミネラル、水の不安定性、不正義 (AI 翻訳)
Abraham Nunbogu, Aria Farsi, Mir Matin, Kaveh Madani
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日本語
本稿は、EVや再生可能エネルギーに不可欠なクリティカルミネラルの需要急増が、南半球の脆弱地域で水不足や環境不正義を引き起こす「犠牲地帯」を生み出していると論じる。技術的解決策（直接リチウム抽出など）は部分的な対応に過ぎず、根本的な政治的改革が必要だと主張する。
English
This paper argues that surging demand for critical minerals for EVs and renewables creates 'sacrifice zones' in the Global South, causing water insecurity and environmental injustice. It contends that technological fixes like direct lithium extraction are insufficient, requiring fundamental political reform.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本のGX政策では、資源調達の安定性とサプライチェーン強靭化が重視されるが、本稿は調達先の環境・社会リスク（水資源）を考慮する必要性を示唆する。SSBJ開示やサプライチェーン管理において、こうしたリスクを組み込む視点が求められる。
In the global GX context
Globally, this paper highlights the social and environmental externalities of the energy transition, relevant to ISSB/CSRD disclosure on supply chain and social impacts. It underscores the need for transition finance to incorporate justice and water risk, aligning with growing attention to just transition.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a critical perspective on the social costs of energy transition, useful for framing just transition research.
🏢実務担当者:Highlights supply chain water and social risks that companies should assess in their ESG due diligence.
🏛政策担当者:Emphasizes the need for governance reforms to prevent environmental injustice in mineral extraction.
📄 Abstract（原文）
The accelerating global demand for critical mineral, essential for electric vehicles, AI technologies, and renewable energy systems, is creating new environmental and social injustices, particularly through severe water insecurity in vulnerable regions of the Global South. While these minerals underpin global energy, digital, and sustainability transitions, their extraction often depletes and contaminates scarce water resources, disrupts livelihoods, and produces profound health disparities. These emerging “sacrifice zones” mirror the exploitative patterns of the fossil fuel era, revealing deep governance failures and widening inequalities that undermine the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Although technological advances such as Direct Lithium Extraction offer partial solutions, the core challenge is political. Without urgent reforms, the global transition risks reproducing the very injustices it seeks to resolve.
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