2025 Agenda Sessions

Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Principles in Critical Mineral Supply Chains (MSP Forum)

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This session, hosted by the MSP Forum at Indaba, will examine how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles are shaping the future of critical mineral supply chains. It will explore strategies for integrating ESG practices to ensure ethical sourcing, environmental sustainability, and social equity in mineral production and distribution.  
Discussions will focus on addressing key challenges such as transparency, stakeholder engagement, and mitigating environmental impacts, while highlighting the critical role of ESG in driving responsible mineral supply for the global energy transition. 

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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.        

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Joint OECD-LME-RMI event: Beyond derisking: new approaches for mobilizing responsible finance for mi

To some, ‘derisking’ means making a risky investment viable while, to others, it means avoiding perceived risks altogether. Both paradigms are proving increasingly inadequate as governments look to channel investment into minerals critical to the global economy. Rigid approaches to managing—or, avoiding—risks have fallen short for enabling finance to flow where it is needed. This is not only shortchanging projects, but entire sectors crucial for diversifying investment into traditional mineral producing countries keen to climb up the value chain and making global mineral supply chains more resilient. Instead, more active engagement by investors in the minerals value chain is needed. 
This session will examine new approaches for channeling responsible finance to the minerals sector, in particular how investors, financial institutions, traders and companies sourcing minerals are using responsible business conduct to enable investment in complex settings. A key question at stake will be how to refine emerging approaches in public and development finance to serve as a bridge to private finance. For this to happen, all indications are that investors will need to use active stewardship of projects to achieve sustained improvements in transparency and governance in the mining sector, including by building on existing due diligence systems.  
           

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