Turning Cobalt Wealth into Community Prosperity: A Landmark Convening at Bellagio
Last week, at the prestigious The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center on the shores of Lake Como, a diverse group of global stakeholders gathered to tackle the complex challenges and unlock opportunities linked to the artisanal and small-scale copper-cobalt sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): How can the country’s vast artisanal copper-cobalt wealth be […]
Cobalt Credit System – From Idea to Proof of Concept
Context To facilitate the market acceptance of responsibly produced ASM copper-cobalt, the Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA) – together with Fairphone, a co-founding member of the FCA – launched the Cobalt Credits (CC) mechanism in August 2023 through the purchase of cobalt credits worth approximately USD 12,000 for around 2.5 tonnes of cobalt from the mine […]
Publication of the Annual Survey Report
The Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA) is evolving, and so is its knowledge base. Reflecting on the past year, I’m proud of the many strides we’ve made in strengthening our internal monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems. I genuinely believe that FCA, and The Impact Facility, is uniquely positioned to become a knowledge house in the ASM […]
Webinar by FCA and The Hub on Human Rights Due Diligence and Tackling Child Labour in ASM Copper-Cobalt in September 18,2024
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is Africa’s largest mining producer and supplies over 70% of the world’s cobalt. Minerals like copper and cobalt play a crucial role in the energy transition, with demand for these minerals expected to double in the next ten years. However, it is crucial that this transition protects the […]
FCA Mid-Year Report – 2024
FCA Mid-Year Report 2024 In the first half of 2024, the FCA continued to work towards the formalisation of the ASM cobalt sector at the Kamilombe mine site in Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a mine site with more than 5,000 miners extracting cobalt and copper. Achieving tangible impact in artisanal cobalt mining […]
FCA Quarterly – Q4 2023
Achieving tangible impact in artisanal cobalt mining communities The Fair Cobalt Alliance’s strategic approach to achieving its objectives and tangible impact in artisanal cobalt mining communities comprises five different workstreams geared towards improving the ground conditions of artisanal miners. In this section, we highlight our team’s activities in realising our goals, separated into these five […]
The Hub: A Child Labour Prevention and Remediation Network Creating Long-term Impact in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
This is a guest blog authored by Ellen Schliebitz, Vice-President of Communications at The Centre for Child Rights & Business, a civil society member of the FCA and one of the implementing partners of the child labour remediation hub (The Hub). Child labour is a pressing issue in and around informal mining communities in […]
Introducing Cobalt Credits: Responsible sourcing starts with taking responsibility
This is a guest blog authored by Angela Jorns, the Fair Materials & Mining Lead at Fairphone, and David Sturmes, Fundraising & Business Development Director at The Impact Facility. Fairphone is a Dutch social enterprise that, by making a smartphone and other electronics, is building a movement for fairer electronics, seeking to open up the […]