The U.S. government is using legislation to try to curb the market for conflict minerals.
Cracking down on conflict minerals may not bring peace in eastern Congo, but it could help.
Tim Worstall, a Forbes contributor, recently published a post on conflict minerals and Global Witness.
And it wants them to source paper and conflict minerals from purveyors who manage the resources responsibly.
Javier Bardem collaborates with The Enough Project with co-founder John Prendergast to raise awareness about conflict minerals.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to vote on those rules concerning conflict minerals on August 22.
Note that what is being asked is not that an iPhone be made from just any old not conflict minerals.
Tracking a supply chain and riding it of conflict minerals, however, is no small undertaking for companies that source these minerals.
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In Europe, meanwhile, the 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has been meeting to tighten guidelines on dealing with conflict minerals.
Which is really why the Dodd Frank regulations on conflict minerals get my nomination as the worst law of this year just passing.
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Public opinion reaches a high enough volume that lawmakers step in to regulate whether factory emissions, bribery overseas or, more recently, the purchase of conflict minerals.
But Hall says that auditing a supply chain for conflict minerals would only increase the price of a cell phone, for example, by a penny.
Businesses that started early to establish conflict minerals compliance programs are still expressing worry over their ability to meet the new reporting obligations in time.
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No, rather, expending the effort to source products from the areas that conflict minerals come from, but making sure to only use not conflict minerals.
The report shows that the majority of companies surveyed have made great strides in eliminating conflict minerals from their supply chains since first being evaluated in 2010.
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Whereby we consumers put pressure on the electronics companies to avoid conflict minerals: that pressure coming from the fact that they must tell us if they use them.
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Once this first step is complete, those with conflict minerals in their products must carry out a reasonable country of origin assessment of their upstream supply chains, another significant undertaking.
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Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, AMD, HP, and Microsoft have piloted internationally agreed-upon due diligence guidance on conflict minerals in line with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development due diligence model.
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To be able to do this would mean creating an efficient and effective method of certifying what were and were not conflict minerals from those areas such as the Congo.
In the United States, a new law - section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank legislation - demands that any company that might be using conflict minerals register with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Intel ranked highest on the Enough Project's list with a score of 60, meaning it has taken 60% of the steps recommended by the group to ensure it is responsibly tracking conflict minerals.
To address the issue of conflict minerals, through the end of 2011, Intel had identified 98 smelter sites and visited 48 of them in 16 countries to lay the groundwork for third-party audits.
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Everyone who puts a tantalum capacitor into a piece of electronics has to be able to show that that tantalum did not come, by however roundabout a route, from this area of conflict minerals.
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Until 2011, Goma was a regional trading center for minerals such as tin, coltan and tantalum, but an escalation in violence as well as new U.S. regulations restricting conflict minerals from the global supply chain have stalled the trade.
Until 2011, Goma was a regional trading center for minerals such as tin, coltan and tantlume but an escalation in violence as well as new U.S. regulations restricting conflict minerals from the global supply chain have stalled the trade.
This is possible now because of the strong new international pressure against external support to rebel groups, the removal of Ntaganda, the lowered profitability of the trade in conflict minerals and the International Monetary Fund's pressure on Congo to enact governance reforms.
This new edition of the guide the 17th since the first version was released in 2006 adds new criteria to evaluate companies based on their carbon footprint, use of renewable energy, sourcing of paper fiber and conflict minerals, and product life cycle analysis.
The amount of money armed groups make off three of the main conflict minerals (tin, tantalum and tungsten) has dropped 65% over the past two years, according to a report released earlier this month, which attributes the decrease both to the efforts of the tech industry and to new legislation.
Many more things have to occur, such as building the capacity of the Congolese state, undertaking army reform, pressuring international supporters of the FDLR and LRA, supporting International Criminal Court efforts to introduce accountability, and dealing with the "conflict minerals" that fuel violence in Congo and power our cell phones and laptops.
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