Miliband to ban Chinese ‘slave-trade’ solar panels

Britain's energy minister Ed Miliband is introducing a law change that will allow state-owned energy company GB Energy to not use components of solar panels made by forced labor.

UK government to ban Chinese ‘slave-trade’ solar panels

Campaigners have warned that Chinese slave labour is widespread throughout the renewables sector.

Miliband in solar panel U-turn as UK ministers bow to Chinese slavery fears

State-owned GB Energy will be restricted from importing equipment that may have been made with forced labour

GB Energy to be blocked from using slavery-linked solar

The government says it has listened to MPs who called for a ban on panels linked to slave labour.

Renewables slave labour warning as Ed Miliband seeks ban on Chinese materials

He wants to ensure solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries must not contain materials suspected of being produced through slave labour.

Is net zero possible without slave labour?

So, Ed Miliband has relented, and decided that after all it is not a good idea to build his green energy revolution on the back of slave labour in the Uighur region of China. Miliband had refused to back a Lords amendment to the Great British Energy Bill, first reported by Steerpike, which would have