• Progress Being Made In Eliminating Conflict From Minerals Supply Chains

    Esq. Amol Mehra, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable

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    Esq. Amol Mehra, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable 
     

  • Water Shortages May Escalate Conflict Between Countries

    Food security is the focus of this year’s World Water Week, the leading freshwater meeting currently underway in Stockholm. Because both food and energy are closely tied to internationally shared water resources, an important part of the conversation will be about turning competing demands for transboundary water resources into cooperation and sharing of benefits  more[...]  login_required

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  • United States: US Securities And Exchange Commission Adopts Final Conflict Minerals Disclosure Rule

    On August 22, 2012, and as mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted the final rule regarding disclosure of the use of conflict minerals that originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or an adjoining country. The rule was originally proposed on December 15, 2010.  more[...]  login_required

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  • New Report Examines the Geopolitics of Natural Gas

    Prof. Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Harvard Kennedy School

    A new report co-authored by Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Professor Meghan L. O’Sullivan explores the potential for new quantities of conventional and unconventional natural gas to reach global markets in the years ahead. The report is part of an on-going two-year study on the geopolitical implications of natural gas co-directed by O’Sullivan, who heads the Belfer Center for Science and International Affair’s Geopolitics of Energy Project, and Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Energy Forum at Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.  more[...]  login_required

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    Prof. Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Harvard Kennedy School 
     

  • Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo

    Warlords, soldiers, and child laborers all toil over a mineral you've never even heard of. Coltan is a conflict mineral in nearly every cell phone, laptop, and electronic device. It's also tied to the deaths of over 5 million people in Congo since 1990.  more[...]

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