China lithium boom harming fragile Tibetan plateau: report
Beijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2023
China’s booming electric vehicle industry is fuelling a lithium rush in the Tibetan plateau that risks damaging the troubled region’s fragile ecology and deepening rights violations, research published Wednesday said.
China is the world’s biggest EV market but largely relies on other countries to supply the lithium used in the batteries that power low-carbon vehicles…
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