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Canadian-based Corporate Knights announced its sixth annual Global 100 list of the most sustainable large corporations in the world. This includes oil sands players, Suncor, Nexen and Shell, and provides also other surprises. (more…)

Award winning sustainability reporters seem to like stakeholder panels, which provide a critical sounding board, collaboration opportunities and credibility.  And they are probably cheaper compared to using an assurance process offered by branded management consultants.

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This was a bad week for cyanide-related news for Newmont and Dundee Precious Metals. (more…)

Generating credibility and trust is the sustainability reporter’s quest for the Holy Grail. Do GRI Check or 3^rd Party Check of the GRI Application Level declaration help report makers and user find the Holy Grail? (more…)

CEE Bankwatch, an advocacy NGO, has been scoring PR points against the European Bank (EBRD) and its involvement in gold mining projects in Armenia, Bulgaria and Kyrgyzstan. Would EBRD’s exit resolve the allegations and concerns raised by Bankwatch – and existing legacies associated with ‘brownfield mining’? (more…)

Last week, over 100 NGOs  from around the world called for major reforms of the Equator Principles. Are these Principles, adopted by major project finance banks and export credit agencies (ECAs), really the failure they are made out to be? (more…)

Canadian CSR Centre for Extractive Sector Launched

The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM)  is tasked with spearheading the development of the Centre for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility, which was launched today. Will it be able to transcend beyond a one‐stop‐web-shop with the latest information on CSR?  (more…)

Are some of the heated discussions around the Canadian Bill C-300 designed to regulate the CSR performance of Canadian extractive companies operating abroad a storm in the tea cup? (more…)

Mehrdad Nazari, Prizma’s Senior ESIA & CSR Advisor, was invited to join Mining.com Magazine’s External Editorial Committee (EEC) and serve as its Sustainability and Community Development Editor. (more…)

The current IFC Performance Standards emerged in 2006 as one of the major outcomes of the World Bank Group’s self-critical Extractive Industry Review. Is it really time to revise the IFC Performance Standards, which is now under way, instead of focusing more on their broader adoption and application? Are we allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good? (more…)