ABSTRACT The sourcing of diamonds, critical minerals, and other natural resources has long been associated with issues such as human rights violations, environmental degradation, and...
Tag: Sourcing
Olivia McFarlane – The batteries of today may not be as good as you think… but they need to be…
ABSTRACT The batteries we make, use and rely on today cannot and will not be the batteries that will get us across the line of...
Andy Whitmore – Transition mineral supply chains in the context of Scottish legislation
ABSTRACT The talk will present the conclusions of a soon to be released report commissioned by Friends of the Earth Scotland to raise awareness of...
George Donne – A Rock and a Hard Place: Challenges for Miners in the EV Supply Chain
ABSTRACT The huge rises in commodity prices for lithium-ion battery raw materials[1] has seen a flood of small exploration and development companies fight to get...
Karen Hanghøj – Mining and the Just Transition
ABSTRACT Raw materials are important for society in general, and for the transition to a green economy in particular. They are key for achieving the...
Grant Erskine – Scientifically verifying the origin of raw materials is critical to the delivery of ESG
Grant.erskine@sourcecertain.com All ESG claims first start at the provenance (i.e the origin) of the raw materials that are subsequently processed and valued added into the...
Louis Maréchal – The OECD and the OECD Guidance on responsible supply chains of minerals
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for...
Andrew Buchanan – A Circular Economy in the Iron and Steel Industry and Beyond
1Materials Processing Institute, Eston Road, Middlesbrough, TS6 6US | UK, andrew.buchanan@mpiuk.com For too long, the “take-make-dispose”, linear economy model has been adopted globally. In this...
Frances Wall – Integrating primary raw materials into Circular Economy research
Frances Wall*1 & Met4Tech participants2 1Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter f.wall@exeter.ac.uk 2Met4Tech@exeter.ac.uk @met4tech (website coming soon – met4tech.org) The new UKRI Interdisciplinary Circular...
Remi Piet – Innovation and best practices in community engagement towards the social licensing of extractive projects
Senior Director @ Embellie Advisory remipiet@embellieadvisory.me Over the last 10 years, Embellie Advisory has worked with extractive companies and communities to build lasting collaboration towards...