The new EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive introduces new human rights obligations for large businesses. This concise analysis evaluates how the new rules will affect mining projects in Sweden and the livelihoods of Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding communities. As an illustrative case, it considers the plans of Swedish mining company LKAB to mine Europe’s largest known deposit of rare earth elements near Giron/Kiruna.
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- https://doi.org/10.51414/sei2024.042
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- 18
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- Sweden