Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Fabiana Di Lorenzo

Senior Director, Impact, Innovation and Credibility Responsible Minerals Initiative

Fabiana Di Lorenzo is a senior executive with over 15 years of experience navigating the complexities of responsible business regulations, environmental and human rights and geopolitical supply chain risks. In her current role as Senior Director of Impact, Innovation, and Credibility at the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), the largest industry association in the electronics sector with over 500 members, she leads organizational expansion to support responsible sourcing and scale impact through a full value chain approach. She defines collaboration frameworks with stakeholders, shapes data strategies, and drives systemic change to enhance member due diligence. Beyond her work at RMI, she serves on boards and committees, offering strategic guidance to organizations undergoing growth and transformation. Passionate about empowering fast-growing entities, she helps sharpen strategic focus, effectively use new technologies, foster innovation, and build cohesive teams. Through her extensive network of experts, businesses, and investors, she has facilitated critical exchanges among brands, mining companies and investors that bridge knowledge gaps, enabling impactful action. Her career reflects a commitment to purpose-driven leadership, reputation management, and leveraging innovation to address evolving global challenges.


2025 Agenda Sessions

The Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030 - Reduced mining-related conflict and its drivers

The Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030 is a collaborative investor-led initiative seeking to define a vision for a socially and environmentally responsible mining sector overall by 2030, and to develop a consensus about the role of finance in realising this vision. The Commission is consulting with stakeholders on one of its seven workstreams: ‘Reducing mining-related conflict and its drivers’. 

The Commission will seek input on the intersection between conflict and the mining industry. Participants are invited to share their inputs and reflections on how companies operate and source from conflict areas. 
 

Wednesday 05 February 12:00 - 14:00 CTICC1

Investment Programme

Add to calendar 02/05/2025 12:00 02/05/2025 14:00 The Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030 - Reduced mining-related conflict and its drivers The Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030 is a collaborative investor-led initiative seeking to define a vision for a socially and environmentally responsible mining sector overall by 2030, and to develop a consensus about the role of finance in realising this vision. The Commission is consulting with stakeholders on one of its seven workstreams: ‘Reducing mining-related conflict and its drivers’. 

The Commission will seek input on the intersection between conflict and the mining industry. Participants are invited to share their inputs and reflections on how companies operate and source from conflict areas. 
 
CTICC1 Africa/Johannesburg

Can we have a just energy transition if we don’t get better at remedy?

  • Why do miners and mining nations need to get better at remedy?
  • How good are we at remedy in mining anyway?
  • What are the pathways to restorative justice once a failure has occurred?

Wednesday 05 February 15:00 - 16:00 CTICC1

Sustainability Series

Add to calendar 02/05/2025 15:00 02/05/2025 16:00 Can we have a just energy transition if we don’t get better at remedy?
  • Why do miners and mining nations need to get better at remedy?
  • How good are we at remedy in mining anyway?
  • What are the pathways to restorative justice once a failure has occurred?
CTICC1 Africa/Johannesburg

Joint OECD-LME-RMI event on Responsible Mineral Supply chains: Making criticality count at the regio

Welcome to a joint event on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains: Making Criticality Count at the Regional Level
 

Thursday 06 February 09:00 - 09:30 CTICC1

Sustainability Series

Add to calendar 02/06/2025 09:00 02/06/2025 09:30 Joint OECD-LME-RMI event on Responsible Mineral Supply chains: Making criticality count at the regio Welcome to a joint event on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains: Making Criticality Count at the Regional Level
 
CTICC1 Africa/Johannesburg

Joint OECD-LME-RMI event: Transparency from the ground up: emerging approaches for connecting mines

The OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Mineral Supply Chains sets out clear responsibilities for upstream and downstream companies to ease the flow of meaningful information on risks. While the past 10 years have seen audit systems, regulations and market requirements based on the Guidance rolled out, information flow is a systemic challenge. This session will examine different facets of this challenge, including trust and commercial sensitivity, due diligence scheme credibility and under-utilization of existing data sources. Actors from across the minerals supply chain will come together with civil society, governments and international organizations to explore emerging approaches to address these challenges. In particular, the session will highlight ways to enhance trusted channels including and beyond schemes for sharing due diligence data, how to do more with existing data like Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) reporting, and promote coherence in expectations for upstream companies to bring greater focus to risk mitigation.        

Thursday 06 February 09:30 - 11:00 CTICC1

Sustainability Series

Add to calendar 02/06/2025 09:30 02/06/2025 11:00 Joint OECD-LME-RMI event: Transparency from the ground up: emerging approaches for connecting mines The OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Mineral Supply Chains sets out clear responsibilities for upstream and downstream companies to ease the flow of meaningful information on risks. While the past 10 years have seen audit systems, regulations and market requirements based on the Guidance rolled out, information flow is a systemic challenge. This session will examine different facets of this challenge, including trust and commercial sensitivity, due diligence scheme credibility and under-utilization of existing data sources. Actors from across the minerals supply chain will come together with civil society, governments and international organizations to explore emerging approaches to address these challenges. In particular, the session will highlight ways to enhance trusted channels including and beyond schemes for sharing due diligence data, how to do more with existing data like Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) reporting, and promote coherence in expectations for upstream companies to bring greater focus to risk mitigation.         CTICC1 Africa/Johannesburg