DRC: Powering Change or Business as Usual?
Artisanal miners work at the Tilwizembe mine, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine outside of Kolwezi in the DRC [File: Aaron Ross/Reuters]
Summary
The world needs to urgently shift away from fossil fuels, which are key drivers of the climate crisis, but at what cost? Powering Change or Business as Usual? documents how many people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been forcibly evicted from their homes and farmland to make way for the expansion of industrial mining projects extracting copper and cobalt. The Annex document: “Powering change or business as usual? Company and government responses to Amnesty International and IBGDH” (AI Index: AFR 62/7010/2023) contains all the correspondence from the mining companies, parent companies and the Government of the DRC that are referenced in the report.