A Global Just Transition — For Whom?
Climate One
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Lithium Mining in Bolivia
Bolivian lithium company YLB is working to extract the mineral from Scrende Lake. Local indigenous community say they should have been consulted before works began. Dr Diego von Vakano, a political science professor at Texas A&M University agrees that Bolivia needs to do more to consult and include local communities in the area where it's extracting lithium. But going forward, there are reasons to believe it could improve - with new technologies not necessarily using water so much as Chile does.
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