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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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. 
 

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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
 

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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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