However, even the best-intentioned miners are struggling to demonstrate that they are making good on these promises. Mining companies have an array of voluntary standards to choose from, with lots of inconsistencies between the metrics that must be reached, the data that must be collected and the format in which it must be presented.
Compounding the problem is the high cost of collecting and reporting data from different disparate mine sites around the globe. Mining companies have a big role to play in cleaning up the industry's image. But for miners to uphold the lofty ESG standards expected of them, it is incumbent on stakeholders to work with the industry to help ease the barriers to compliance.
Watch our expert panel discuss the impact pending regulation shifts would have on sustainability reporting; the (slow) pace of convergence between the key reporting standards; the take up of sustainability enhancing technologies by miners; and the opportunity for emerging and existing technology to change the face of the industry in the next decade, and download the full report and infographic by following the below link.
