Legal framework for exploration, production, development and exploitation of lithium; with emphasis on environmental rights and sustainable development dimensions

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
mohammad ali kafai far 1
Fardin Hemmati Mamo 2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of International Law, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran.
2 PhD student in International Law, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran.
10.22034/jgdsm.2025.538421.1023
Abstract
Today, the issue of environment is one of the most important challenges in all countries, especially industrialized countries with high population. In a way, the environment is related to all jobs and equipment. It is important to pay attention to it, especially in the field of household and industrial waste. Today, due to the production and increase in the use of electric cars, the consumption of lithium batteries has increased significantly. They are lighter than other batteries and on the other hand, they produce more energy. For this reason, the customers and consumers of these batteries is increasing. This increase in use brings concerns about the effect of these batteries on the environment, and the method of extracting and recycling them is of particular importance. And from the point of view of rights and sustainable development, this issue is considered a serious threat to the environment, although the extraction of this metal has a high value in the economic cycle, but it will cause major losses to the environment, which until now, the countries of Korea and Japan in the extraction and Its exploitation has been pioneered, therefore, according to the mentioned cases, we intend to conduct a comprehensive review of the subject with the method of field collection and library collection tools.
Keywords
Lithium
legal dimensions
industrial exploitation
sustainable development

  • Receive Date 09 February 2025
  • Revise Date 06 March 2025
  • Accept Date 13 March 2025
  • First Publish Date 20 March 2025
  • Publish Date 20 March 2025