Carmaker group (Volkswagen AG) that joined Cobalt for Development in 2020 and funded its first and second phases, to 2025. Its November 2020 release announcing the move said it “does not accept cobalt from artisanal mines”. It is absent from the partners that remained at the late-2024 continuation, while the paper's own acknowledgements still thank it and a September 2024 report of EGC's exploration named it among the funders.
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Joined in 2020 and funded the first and second phases, to 2025. It is absent from the partners that remained at the late-2024 continuation; the paper's acknowledgements still thank it, and a September 2024 report of EGC's exploration named it among the funders.
In January 2019, the companies BASF, BMW, Samsung Electronics and Samsung SDI commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
En collaboration avec Cobalt for Development (C4D), financé par BASF, BMW, Samsung SDI, STIHL et Volkswagen Group, EGC a lancé un programme d'exploration
The project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of and with funding from the participating companies.
The project is being implemented by GIZ and financed by BASF, BMW Group, Google, Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI and Volkswagen.