Critical mineral mining and environmental sustainability: Impacts, challenges, and pathways for responsible resource development
重要鉱物の採掘と環境持続可能性：責任ある資源開発のための影響、課題、道筋 (AI 翻訳)
Janmejaya Sahoo
🤖 gxceed AI 要約
日本語
本レビューは、脱炭素化に不可欠な重要鉱物（リチウム、コバルト等）の採掘が環境や地域社会に与える影響を総合的に分析する。土地劣化、水資源汚染、生物多様性喪失などの課題を指摘し、循環経済やクリーン技術、ESG枠組みによる緩和策を評価する。持続可能性のパラドックスに警鐘を鳴らす。
English
This review critically examines the environmental and socio-ecological impacts of critical mineral mining needed for low-carbon technologies, including lithium, cobalt, and rare earths. It covers land degradation, water contamination, and biodiversity loss, and evaluates mitigation strategies like circular economy, cleaner extraction, and ESG governance. Highlights the sustainability paradox of mining for decarbonization.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本は重要鉱物の大半を輸入に依存しており、本論文が指摘する環境・社会リスクはサプライチェーン全体のESG評価や資源安全保障に直結する。特に、経済産業省の重要鉱物政策や、サプライチェーン開示義務（SSBJ）の実務に示唆を与える。
In the global GX context
This paper is globally relevant as it addresses the environmental footprint of the critical mineral supply chain essential for the clean energy transition. It informs disclosure frameworks (e.g., ISSB, CSRD) by highlighting governance and social risks that companies must report on, and underscores the need for transparent ESG metrics in mining operations.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a comprehensive review of environmental impacts and mitigation strategies for critical mineral mining, useful for further research on sustainable extraction and supply chain governance.
🏢実務担当者:Corporate sustainability teams in mining, battery, and EV industries can use this to assess and communicate environmental risks and mitigation pathways for critical mineral sourcing.
🏛政策担当者:Highlights regulatory challenges and the need for robust governance frameworks to ensure responsible mining of materials essential for decarbonization.
📄 Abstract（原文）
The accelerating global transition toward low-carbon energy systems has substantially increased demand for critical minerals, including lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and rare earth elements. These minerals are essential for renewable energy technologies, electric mobility, and advanced industrial applications. However, their extraction and processing generate significant environmental and socio-ecological challenges. This review adopts a structured narrative synthesis approachto critically evaluate the environmental impacts of critical mineral development across major producing regions worldwide. Keyissues include land degradation, deforestation, water depletion and contamination, greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and biodiversity loss, particularly in ecologically sensitive and water-stressed regions. The analysis further highlights how these impacts are often unevenly distributed, disproportionately affecting local communities, Indigenous populations, and environmentally vulnerable areas. Beyond environmental risks, the review examines governance challenges, supply-chain inequities, and the growing sustainability paradox in which minerals required for decarbonization may themselves be producedthrough environmentally intensive pathways. Emerging mitigation strategies, including circular-economy models, recycling, material efficiency, cleaner extraction technologies, and transparent ESG-based governance frameworks, are critically assessed for their potential to reduce environmental footprints and enhance resource security.
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- openalex https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20561518first seen 2026-06-27 04:42:01 · last seen 2026-06-27 04:44:12
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