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Mining and Sustainability-Working Together
Euro Mine Expo Skellefteå, Sweden, June 8 - 10, 2010
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Key Challenges
People
Environment
Partnership for Sustainable Outcomes
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Key challenges: People
pressing need to address poverty, nutrition and health, particularly in emerging nations
rising expectations of local communities
increased demand for transparency
growing emphasis to respect human rights, including indigenous peoples’ values and concerns
ASM: 100+ million people, often unregulated, close to large-scale mining
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Key Challenges - Environment
growing concerns about maintaining ecosystem integrity
growing emphasis on water, energy, biodiversity
continuing concerns about climate change
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Key Challenges: Partnerships
What are the critical success factors that have enabled some countries to benefit from substantial resource endowments and avoid the so-called resource curse?
What practical steps might be taken by the industry, governments, local communities and aid agencies to build these success factors?
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Setting the scene for partnership:the governance framework and capacity building…
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Fostering economic development in remote areasMining: Partnerships for Development
ICMM member companies have committed, at a CEO-level, to work in partnership in six priority areas
Poverty reduction
Revenue management
Regional development planning
Local content
Social investment
Dispute resolution
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