Concern is growing that new mineral demand pressures associated with transport electrification will exacerbate existing supply chain sustainability and resiliency risks and escalate global environmental injustices. In response, private and public actors in the extractive sector have signaled that they are retooling mineral production, sourcing and stewardship governance systems, practices, and processes to meet the sustainability demands of the electric vehicle (EV) transition. Currently, however, the specific components of many of these initiatives remain less well known, with little scholarly review of their potential to address the longstanding systemic deficiencies in mineral supply chains. Instead, research and policy conversations are oriented largely towards what can be described as a , focused on minimizing the intensity of metal mining as a strategy for ensuring the sustainability imperatives of the transition. This Perspective argues that 1) the EV transition offers a critical impetus for tackling head-on longstanding systemic deficiencies in responsible global mineral production, sourcing, and stewardship 2) addressing the deficiencies will also better position measures to yield their intended sustainability outcomes and 3) historically, new initiatives introduced to reform the extractive sector rarely address the root problems that first gave impetus to the initiatives. Accordingly, questions about retooling existing mineral procurement governance systems, practices and processes should be an integral part of EV transition research. It recommends moving research, policy, action, and investment towards prioritizing addressing persisting systemic deficiencies in global mineral supply chains as part of strategies for ensuring ethical transport decarbonization.

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电动汽车转型：对于改善采掘业和矿产供应链是福还是祸？

人们越来越担心，与运输电气化相关的新矿产需求压力将加剧现有供应链的可持续性和弹性风险，并加剧全球环境不公正。作为回应，采掘业的私人和公共参与者表示，他们正在重组矿产生产、采购和管理治理系统、实践和流程，以满足电动汽车 (EV) 转型的可持续性需求。然而，目前，其中许多举措的具体组成部分仍然不太为人所知，很少有学术界对其解决矿产供应链长期存在的系统性缺陷的潜力进行审查。相反，研究和政策对话主要面向所谓的“最小化金属开采强度”，作为确保转型可持续性必要性的战略。本视角认为：1) 电动汽车转型为解决负责任的全球矿产生产、采购和管理方面长期存在的系统性缺陷提供了关键动力；2) 解决这些缺陷也将更好地采取措施，以实现预期的可持续发展成果；3)从历史上看，为改革采掘业而采取的新举措很少能解决最初推动这些举措的根本问题。因此，有关重组现有矿产采购治理系统、实践和流程的问题应成为电动汽车转型研究的一个组成部分。它建议将研究、政策、行动和投资转向优先解决全球矿产供应链中持续存在的系统性缺陷，作为确保道德运输脱碳战略的一部分。