“As with many other modern products ubiquitous in everyday life, renewable energy technologies can have long supply chains that are linked at various points to modern slavery.”Australia’s clean energy industry has encouraged governments and companies to take actions to put an end to modern slavery and forced labor, reported The Guardian.“The points of exposure most in need of attention are the manufacture of various key components and the extraction of raw minerals where renewables are expected to become a growing share of the market,” Aberle said in the press release.From 15 to 30 percent of the global supply of cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it was discovered by Amnesty International that children as young as seven were being put to work in dangerous artisanal cobalt mines where they were not given sufficient protective gear and were exposed to poisonous dust, all for less than $2 per day, the report said, as The Guardian reported.The report noted that China’s Xinjiang region is where 40 to 45 percent of the polysilicon for use in the solar photovoltaic supply chain is sourced, and about 2.6 million Kazakh and Uyghur people have been interned, coerced and subjected to “re-education programs” there, reported The Guardian.If we don’t, modern slavery risks significantly complicating the just transition to a decarbonised economy.”"