Sunday, June 26, 2011

Policy Recommendations for a Sustainable Copper Supply Chain: A Chinese perspective


As the world's most important importer of copper ore, and the single most important producer of refined copper and key copper-based products, China fulfills a unique role in the global copper supply chain. China has already made rapid advances in reducing the environmental impacts of its primary production, resulting in average impacts that are less than the world average and less than most of the countries exporting primary copper to China. Notwithstanding its leadership in creating sustainable primary production, there are important opportunities to carry its learning and technological capacity to the rest of its supply chain.

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