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"Embedding gender at the heart of Responsible Mining" web panel - Tuesday, June 23
With: Prof. Surya Deva (Hong Kong), Lydia Nkopane (South Africa), Prabindra Shakya (Nepal), Vanessa Baudin (Senegal), Daria Goncharova (Russia), and Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken (Switzerland)
Watch the recordingIs gender inequality mining’s ESG blindspot?
Despite an increasing focus on ESG, mining companies are failing to consider the disproportionate effects of mining on women and girls, says a report released Monday by independent research organization the Responsible Mining Foundation.
Mining.comHumanity's loss
The Responsible Mining Foundation is calling for mining companies to show respect for cultural heritage and for countries to do more to protect the historical patrimony of Indigenous people.
Australia's Mining MonthlyRMF: Rio Tinto's destruction of heritage site is "loss for humanity"
The Responsible Mining Foundation (RMF) has described the destruction last month by Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto of a 46,000-year-old site in Australia's Juukan Gorge as "a loss for humanity as a whole", and "another wake-up call" for mining companies to show respect for cultural heritage.
IndustryEurope.comMining, life and occupational disease after Covid
Mpufane points to increased corporate disclosure as a hopeful global trend, made possible by platforms such as the Responsible Mining Index, which reports data from 38 large-scale mining companies across 967 mine sites in 52 countries.
The EcologistMinería Responsable em América Latina: hay avances, pero aún se está lejos de las expecatitivas dela sociedad
El Centro Vincular de la PUCV -en conjunto con Responsible Mining Foundation (RMF)- elaboró el informe “¿Minería Responsable en América Latina y el Caribe? Evaluando como las empresas mineras abordan cuestiones de interés público”, que fue dado a conocer ayer y que se articula en base a las acciones que realizan las compañías en comparación con las expectativas de la sociedad.
Fundación TerramResponsible Mining Foundation y Centro vincular-PUCV coorganizan el webinar “Los desafíos en la industria minera en América Latina”, el 10 de Junio
Con: Pierre De Pasquale (Suiza), Ingrid Koch (Chile), Luis Felipe López-Calva (México/EE.UU.), Ana Maria Vidal Cobian (Perú), Igor Díaz López (Colombia), Joaquín Villarino (Chile) y Dante Pesce (Chile)
Ver la grabación全球矿业治理的现实困境与中国的未来选择
负责任矿业基金会(The Responsible Mining Foundation,RMF)主张矿产的开发应有利于经济发展、改善民生,并尊重资源国的生态环境,同时让矿业企业获得公平收益,并据此发布了负责任矿业指数,对大型跨国矿业企业在经济、环境、社会和治理(Economic、Environment、Social and Governance,EESG)等方面的政策和实践进行评估,以此推进负责任采矿;
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