Consumers, product manufacturers, civil society and tin industry all have a developing understanding of the potential for business and supply chains to create positive outcomes...
Author: Responsible Raw Materials
Robert Pell – Harmonising environmental performance calculations for battery metals
The goal has been clear since the signing of the Paris Agreement: become carbon neutral by 2050[1]. Since, there has been a strong focus on...
Joel Gill – Responsibility-driven Earth scientists: initiatives from the classroom to the UN
Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has the potential to transform society, giving human beings everywhere dignity and equality, meeting the needs of...
Ruth Allington – Mind the gaps! Transforming the value of multidisciplinary risk assessments through dialogue and joined up thinking
In this talk, I’d like to share some of my personal experience of the value of acquiring, developing and applying ‘soft’ professional skills such as...
Mark Racovides – Lessons in the New Normal, mining in Europe needs to listen to be heard
The current situation has forced us all to take more time and think a little more about what our industry really means to the world...
Lucy Crane – Building Responsible Supply Chains: an Example from Li4UK
There are myriad opportunities to positively increase the social and environmental impacts of extractive projects, and this in turn can increase their economic viability too....
Eimear Deady – Waste Not, Want Not. The advantages of understanding metal budgets in alternative resources
Critical raw materials have been on the agenda for over a decade. However, demand volumes are relatively small, and they are typically extracted as by-products...
Chris O’Brien – Carbon after COVID; adding value in a competitive re-boot
Pre-COVID-19 many mainstream media outlets were preparing themselves for the fallout from the Australian wildfires, the seemingly inevitable paradigm shift towards climate action. The virus...
Louis Marechal – Responsible sourcing of minerals – what does it mean and why does it matter for large scale mining companies?
Biography Louis Maréchal joined the Centre for Responsible Business Conduct of the OECD in September 2014. He specifically works on projects related to the implementation...
Bob Seitz and Jan Cilliers – Risk and the Talent Gap
The mining industry is suffering an engineering skills gap. While Universities educate engineers to understand their role, it is up to operators to train them...