Morano on Fox News Primetime: ‘You can rename UN COP27 climate summit the China Empowerment Summit’ – Let’s apply ‘ESG to Chinese-run firms in Africa’

59% of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. – Cobalt mining in the Congo is often done by children — as many as 40,000 — working in brutal and unsafe conditions. A euphemism for these children is ‘informal’ workers.

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Also see: Electric cars ‘represent less than a tenth of 1% of the 1.1 billion cars’

Green Killers: Congo’s Miners Dying to Feed World’s Hunger for Electric Cars – Last year about 70% of the world’s supply came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest, most violent and corrupt places on Earth. Much of its cobalt comes from around this town.

2017 Study: About 29% of San Francisco’s pollution comes from China – 29% of the pollution in the San Francisco Bay Area comes from China, according to a study published in the Environmental Science and Technology. – Where industrial facilities are most common, the local area becomes more polluted, but that’s not to say that regions thousands of miles away are protected and kept in pristine condition. Greenhouse gases and particle pollution are airborne and become displaced by air masses. Researchers have known for a long while, for instance, that some of the pollution found in California comes from other parts of the world, particularly China as pollution and dust becomes swept across the Pacific. Led by University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral researcher Stephanie Ewing,  the team of researchers developed a method for tracing fine airborne particulate pollution (also known as PM2.5 because the particles are less than 2.5 microns wide) with origins in East Asia. Basically, the method involves a specific lead isotope, 208Pb, found in greater concentrations in coal and metal ores in the Chinese region, where this type of installations are extremely widespread. China is considered the number one polluting country in the world.