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VEHICLE INDUSTRY AND RESOURCES
Ore mining for dirty cars
Cars consist of almost three-quarters of metals. In promoting the ore is little emphasis on decent work gelegt.VON KNUT HENKEL

Not just the Gulf lack in the production of political correctness. Picture: AP
HAMBURG taz | A typical golf is about 72 per cent of steel, copper and aluminum. But as the material is recovered? In their recently published study "From Ore to drive" the NGO Global Policy Forum Europe, Misereor and Bread for the World have taken the supply chains in the automotive industry under the microscope.
"So far, the companies make more concerned about the availability of raw materials as the fair promotion," says Jens Martens of the Global Policy Forum together. "There needs to happen more." The most important thing more transparency.
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This requirement also supports Danilo Chammes from the Brazilian state of Carajas. The lawyer is fighting on behalf of the human rights organization Justiça nos Trilhos for decent working and living conditions at the largest iron ore mine in the world.
The mine is located in northern Brazil in a rainforest region, and was opened in the early 1980s. "Since the promotion has been extended continuously without anyone concerned about the living conditions of the local population makes," said Chammes. Thus loaded with iron ore trains thundering daily the 900 miles between the mining area of ​​Carajás and the port of São Luís in Maranhão along. There are always fatal accidents.
Devastating emissions
Another problem is the smelting of iron ore into pig iron in the region, processed for the primary forest to produce charcoal, is with the furnaces are fired. "This will not only devastating to Marabá around for emissions," says Chammas. Stakeholders in the region demand more government presence, more control and higher taxes.
Chammas also sees the buyer's responsibility. These include the German industry, which in 2010 imported about 43 million tonnes of iron ore. Almost 53 percent of which came from Brazil. The Brazilian mining group Vale S.A. operated jointly by the German ThyssenKrupp AG steel plant TKCSA the fight against the residents for years.
The work is blowing dust containing heavy metals into the air, as an analysis commissioned by the Ministry of Health in the spring confirmed. However, it is impossible, with the leaders of ThyssenKrupp and Volkswagen Group, which also produce in Brazil, to start a conversation, so Chammes.
OECD guidelines for resource extraction
German customers as Europe's largest copper producer, the Hamburg-based Aurubis, indicate, however, that they were also environmentally friendly raw materials use, as required by the OECD guidelines for multinational corporations.
Likewise, the automotive industry. "The three major automotive groups in Germany aware of their responsibilities," says Badenhausen, formerly part of Daimler Benz in the development of smart and now works as a consultant. He calls for a dialogue with the company. Featured speakers for the corporations and Danilo Chammes Justiça nos Trilhos are not yet, however, required.
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The authors of the study extends this approach anyway. "Human rights and environmental protection are essential guidelines for a sustainable raw materials policy," says Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel, president of Bread for the World. It should be the federal government "based in its promotion of foreign trade and the negotiation of partnerships or commodity trade agreements."