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US climate envoy John Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that the Biden administration is considering sanctions on raw materials China uses to produce solar panels over the use of forced Uighur labour – a move that could complicate his efforts to convince Beijing to reduce its carbon emissions before the UN climate conference in November. “Xinjiang province not only produces some solar panels that we believe are being, in some cases, produced with forced labour by Uighurs, but also there are a significant amounts of rare earth minerals that are used in the solar panels themselves,” Mr Kerry told the...
