{"id":144174,"date":"2020-11-19T18:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=144174"},"modified":"2020-11-20T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T08:14:28","slug":"volkswagen-se-une-a-la-iniciativa-cobalto-para-el-desarrollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2020\/11\/19\/volkswagen-joins-cobalt-for-development-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen se une a la iniciativa Cobalto para el Desarrollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen se ha unido a la iniciativa Cobalto para el Desarrollo para promover una extracci\u00f3n de cobalto m\u00e1s sostenible en el Congo. El proyecto est\u00e1 siendo ejecutado por la Sociedad Alemana para la Cooperaci\u00f3n Internacional (GIZ) y ha sido financiado hasta ahora por BASF, BMW, Google, Samsung Electronics y Samsung SDI.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>El proyecto piloto pretende reforzar el cumplimiento de la legislaci\u00f3n y mejorar las condiciones de salud y seguridad y el bienestar social en el sur del Congo, donde se encuentra el 70% de los yacimientos de cobalto del mundo. Los primeros cursos de formaci\u00f3n para operarios y trabajadores de las minas acaban de ponerse en marcha, seg\u00fan Volkswagen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2019\/09\/19\/desarrollo-del-cobalto-congo\/\">Cobalto para el desarrollo<\/a> se fund\u00f3 en septiembre de 2019 con especial atenci\u00f3n a la extracci\u00f3n de cobalto en las micro-minas congole\u00f1as. Al cuarteto fundador (BMW, BASF, Samsung SDI y Samsung Electronics) se unieron Google y ahora Volkswagen.<\/p>\n<p>Ya a finales de 2018, los impulsores de la iniciativa hicieron p\u00fablica su idea de promover la extracci\u00f3n sostenible de la materia prima en una mina de cobalto seleccionada en la miner\u00eda artesanal congole\u00f1a. Durante un periodo de tres a\u00f1os, est\u00e1n probando c\u00f3mo se pueden mejorar las condiciones de vida y de trabajo en la mina y en las comunidades circundantes.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen no acepta actualmente ning\u00fan cobalto procedente de la miner\u00eda artesanal congole\u00f1a. \"Para nuestra estrategia de e-movilidad, el abastecimiento sostenible y responsable de materias primas es de suma importancia. El cobalto desempe\u00f1a un papel vital para nosotros, a pesar de la disminuci\u00f3n de la cantidad de esta materia prima en las nuevas generaciones de bater\u00edas para veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos\", afirma Ullrich Gereke, responsable de la estrategia de adquisiciones del Grupo Volkswagen. \"Estamos intentando establecer la miner\u00eda artesanal en la Rep\u00fablica Democr\u00e1tica del Congo como una fuente de cobalto estrictamente sostenible porque la existencia de muchas comunidades locales depende de este sector.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen se ha unido a la iniciativa Cobalto para el Desarrollo para promover una extracci\u00f3n de cobalto m\u00e1s sostenible en el Congo. El proyecto est\u00e1 siendo ejecutado por la Sociedad Alemana para la<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":122463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10230,13682,13168,21888,13383,13169,13946,567],"class_list":["post-144174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-cobalt","tag-cobalt-for-development","tag-congo","tag-raw-materials","tag-suppliers","tag-volkswagen"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"<p>The pilot project in the Congolese copper belt focuses on two aspects: working conditions in artisanal mining and living conditions for the surrounding communities. In both areas, the auspicing body GIZ wants to make progress in cooperation with local cooperatives, government agencies and civil society organisations. The initiative says that this will be done by &#8220;improving mine site management and through health, safety and environmental training for miners. The surrounding communities are to benefit from improved access to education, new income opportunities and training in conflict resolution. So far, more than 1,800 residents from these communities have already benefitted from these measures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its involvement in Cobalt for Development, Volkswagen has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/09\/10\/volkswagen-looks-to-source-battery-raw-materials-sustainably\/\">entered into a partnership with RCS Global<\/a>, an agency specialising in supply chain analysis. The system developed by RCS Global enables the tracking of raw materials to sub-suppliers, refineries, smelters, mines and recycling companies. &#8220;Working with the RCS Global agency helps us to get a complete overview of which raw material sources and subcontractors are in our supply chains and at the same time check their accountability,&#8221; Gereke said a few weeks ago. &#8220;In direct contact with the sub-suppliers, our expectations of responsible raw material procurement can be explained, checked and agreed-upon measures can be better tracked&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reporting by Cora Werwitzke<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-newsroom.com\/en\/press-releases\/volkswagen-engages-in-improving-working-conditions-in-artisanal-cobalt-mines-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo-6619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volkswagen-newsroom.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}