--- title: "M2i Global" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/m2i-global/ publisher: "Not For Sale" --- Corporate Partner # M2i GlobalMinerals & Metals Building the infrastructure for responsible mineral sourcing, supply chain transparency, traceability technology, and policy solutions that stop forced labor and ecocide from entering global markets undetected. M2i Global is a minerals and metals company focused on supply chain innovation, transparency, and traceability across the critical mineral systems most connected to [forced labor](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) and [ecocide](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-ecocide/). Not For Sale CEO Mark Wexler serves as a Strategic Advisor to M2i, bringing nearly two decades of field experience at the intersection of mineral extraction, human trafficking, and environmental destruction. ## The Problem M2i Addresses The global demand for cobalt, lithium, nickel, copper, and rare earth minerals is accelerating, driven by the green transition, consumer electronics, and defense needs. The supply chains for these minerals are among the most documented for forced labor, child labor, and environmental destruction on earth. The [DRC](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/dr-congo/) alone supplies over 70% of the world’s cobalt, much of it through artisanal mines where working conditions amount to modern-day slavery. The problem is not a lack of awareness. It is a lack of infrastructure: the tools to track minerals from mine to product, the policies to enforce accountability, and the technologies to verify that the materials inside a battery or a circuit board were not extracted by forced labor or at the cost of an ecosystem. ## What M2i Does M2i is building the infrastructure that responsible mineral sourcing requires. The company focuses on supply chain transparency, tracking and tracing technology, and policy solutions that make it structurally harder for minerals linked to forced labor and ecocide to enter global markets undetected. M2i works to ensure that the transition to clean energy does not replicate the human rights failures of the fossil fuel era. ## The Research Foundation M2i’s approach is informed by the research Mark Wexler conducted as a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, examining the intersection of minerals and metals supply chains with human rights and environmental consequences. This research, alongside the published paper “The Intersection of Environmental and Human Exploitation in Peru” co-authored with Dr. David Batstone, provides the evidence base for M2i’s operating model. ## How M2i Connects to the Not For Sale Mission M2i complements [Regenerate Technology Global](https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/regenerate/) and [ABTC](https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/abtc/). While Regenerate and ABTC close the loop through battery recycling, reducing demand for new extraction, M2i addresses the front end: how minerals enter the supply chain in the first place, and whether the systems tracking them are robust enough to stop forced labor and ecocide from hiding inside the products consumers trust. Together, these partnerships represent Not For Sale’s most comprehensive [social innovation](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-social-innovation/) response to the minerals-trafficking nexus. Not For Sale does not just document the problem in the [DRC](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/dr-congo/). It builds the enterprises and partnerships that disrupt the system producing it. [Learn more about Not For Sale’s social innovation work](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-social-innovation/) ![M2i Global logo](https://wearenotforsale.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/m2i-global-logo.webp) #### Partnership Sector Minerals & Metals Partner since 2024 Focus Ecocide [All partners](https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/) ## Other partners [View all](https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/) [AllSaintsFashion](https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/allsaints/) Current [Regenerate Technology GlobalClean Technology](https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/regenerate/) Current [DignitaEat well, do good](https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/dignita/) Current ## Join us in building long-term change. Partner with us [Donate](https://wearenotforsale.org/partners/m2i-global/?campaign=770665)