Mining Sustainability Working Group

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At the April 16 SWG student meeting the following paper will be discussed:

Scott Pegg “Mining and poverty reduction: Transforming rhetoric into reality“, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 14, Issues 3-4, 2006, Pages 376-387 

The Global Reporting Initiative and International Council on Mining and Metals have released sustainability reporting guidelines in the mining and metals sector. Comments are invited on these, closing end April 2009.

 The guidelines are available here:

http://www.globalreporting.org/NR/rdonlyres/E75BAED5-F176-477E-A78E-DC2E434E1FB2/2456/DraftFinalMiningandMetalsSectorSupplment1.pdf