Schools in the footprint of transition mineral extraction
トランジション鉱物採掘のフットプリントにある学校 (AI 翻訳)
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日本語
この論文は、エネルギー転換に必要な鉱物（ETM）の採掘が学校や子どもに与える影響を初めてグローバルに分析した。49カ国約129万校のデータを用い、現在約391万人の小学生が鉱山から10km以内に通学していることを明らかにした。中間的な環境パフォーマンスの国に78%の学校が集中する「中位ガバナンスの罠」を指摘し、2040年までにさらに163万人の子どもが影響を受ける可能性を示した。
English
This paper presents the first global cross-walk between school locations and active transition mineral mining operations, covering 1.29 million schools in 49 countries. It finds that approximately 3.91 million primary-school-aged children attend schools within 10 km of an active mine, with 78% in countries of intermediate environmental performance, termed the 'middle-tier governance trap'. Under net-zero pathways, an additional 1.63 million children become proximate to mines by 2040.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本は再生可能エネルギー拡大に伴いレアメタル需要が増加するが、本論文は海外の採掘現場が子どもの教育環境に与える影響を定量的に示しており、日本のサプライチェーン管理やESG投資判断において重要な知見となる。特に、中位ガバナンス国への依存リスクを認識し、調達先の環境・社会ガバナンス評価に活用できる。
In the global GX context
This paper highlights a critical blind spot in global energy transition governance: the proximity of schools to mining operations. It introduces the concept of a 'middle-tier governance trap', where countries with moderate environmental performance host the majority of affected schools, challenging assumptions that weaker governance is the primary risk. This has implications for ISSB and CSRD disclosures requiring supply chain due diligence on social impacts.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Researchers studying the social dimensions of energy transitions should note the novel empirical dataset linking schools to mining, and the 'middle-tier governance trap' concept for framing future policy analysis.
🏢実務担当者:Corporate sustainability teams can use this data to assess and disclose social risks in mineral supply chains, particularly for conflict mineral or child impact assessments.
🏛政策担当者:Regulators should consider integrating school proximity into environmental impact assessments and sustainability disclosure frameworks for mining operations.
📄 Abstract（原文）
<title>Abstract</title> <p>Meeting the Paris Agreement targets requires sustained expansion of mineral extraction across landscapes marginal to global supply chains. The social and environmental complexities of energy transition mineral (ETM) extraction are receiving growing attention, yet the consequences for children's everyday environments remain uncharacterised. Children spend six to eight hours daily in schools across a critical developmental window, but schools are absent from current ETM governance frameworks, despite established evidence linking mining exposures to neurodevelopmental impairment, respiratory disease and educational attainment. Here we present the first global cross-walk between school locations and active ETM operations, covering 1,291,773 schools across 49 countries. We find that 37,411 schools, enrolling approximately 3.91 million primary-school-aged children, lie within 10 km of an active mine. Exposure does not concentrate in the least-governed states: 78% of proximate schools sit in countries of intermediate environmental performance, a pattern we term the middle-tier governance trap. Under International Energy Agency Net Zero Emissions pathways to 2040, the proximate-school population grows by 1.63 million children, approximately 6,037 per gigaton of cumulative CO₂ avoided. The expansion of decarbonisation infrastructure is occurring in proximity to a growing child population whose schools remain invisible to the policy instruments designed to govern the global energy transition.</p>
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- Research Square https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9855076/v1first seen 2026-06-09 04:30:55 · last seen 2026-06-16 04:28:38
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