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If you would like to access the full discussion and the additional resources, why not join Global Health Film? Your annual membership gives you access to our full catalogue of discussions and additional content, as well as free registration for all our online events. Aerial view of the Indonesian Morowali Industrial Park. Selected highlights from the panel discussion are available below. The biggest source of cobalt outside Africa is now Indonesia. Alan was in discussion with The Cost of Cobalt co-directors Fiona Lloyd-Davies and Robert Flummerfelt, and Green Warriors director Martin Boudot. Cobalt, which is mainly produced as a byproduct of copper and nickel, was ignored for a long time in favor of those more in-demand minerals.

The panel discussion after the screening was moderated by Professor Alan Dangour, Director of the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Amnesty International and African Resources Watch have lead the charge about human rights abuses in the DRC, particularly in cobalt, and mounted pressure on. The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces an estimated 70 of the world's cobalt, and most of it comes from the city of Kolwezi. Cobalt may be part of the global solution to climate change, but is it right that Congo’s next generation pay the price with their health? Many are hoping that the more the world understands their plight, the more pressure will be put on the industry here to clean up its act. In The Cost of Cobalt we meet the doctors treating the children affected and the scientists who are measuring the pollution. More than 60% of the world’s reserves of cobalt are in the DRC and this mineral is essential for the production of electric car batteries, which may be the key to reducing carbon emissions and to slowing climate change. Scientists and doctors are finding increasing evidence of environmental pollution from industrial mining which, they believe, may be the cause of a range of malformations from cleft palate to some so serious the baby is stillborn. In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Directed by Fiona Lloyd-Davies and Robert Flummerfelt, 25 mins

Cobalt africa