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	<title>PRIZMA &#187; Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives</title>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s GRI reporting in 2011 appears on par with 2010</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2012/01/27/canadas-gri-reporting-in-2011-appears-on-par-with-2010/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=canadas-gri-reporting-in-2011-appears-on-par-with-2010</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although 2011 GRI reporting in the US seems to be trailing by nearly 30% from 2010, Canada’s numbers remain largely on par. But has push by government and PDAC been effective? Earlier this week, I reviewed a January 2012 GRI spreadsheet which listed sustainability reporters for North America. GRI had sent this spreadsheet to its Organizational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRI Reporting in Mining on Increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRI recorded 87 mining reporters for the 2010 period, up from 70 in 2009. 61 had adopted GRI’s Mining and Metals Sector Supplement. Nine were classified as integrated reports (4 from South Africa). Looking at the GRI list (queried March 17, 2011), a few things stand out. First, Xstrata related companies were recorded with 4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRI Reporting Grows by 30% in USA and 50% in Canada</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2011/03/09/gri-reporting-grows-by-30-in-usa-and-50-in-canada/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gri-reporting-grows-by-30-in-usa-and-50-in-canada</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With over 450 new reports added to GRI’s database for 2010, it is time to present updated charts for Canada and the US. They show impressive growth rates, that these are different markets and that US reporters like to remain ‘Undeclared’. Globally, GRI recorded a 22% increase of GRI-type sustainability reporting between 2009 and 2010. The increase in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NGOs Testing BHP Billiton and Investors’ Metal</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/12/02/ngos-testing-bhp-billiton-and-investors%e2%80%99-metal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ngos-testing-bhp-billiton-and-investors%25e2%2580%2599-metal</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broad Community Support (BCS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC Performance Standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As discussions about the failed Bill C300 are subsiding, BHP Billiton's sustainability report is being mocked and NGOs lodged complaints about the company’s Mozal aluminum smelter with the JSE SRI Index and IFC’s independent recourse mechanism. BHP Billiton is one of the very profitable giants in the extractive sector The company has also been a long time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prizma Publishes Fall 2010 News</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can now access Prizma News Fall 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>Are Canada’s PDAC and MAC embracing GRI?</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/09/22/are-canada%e2%80%99s-pdac-and-mac-embracing-gri/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=are-canada%25e2%2580%2599s-pdac-and-mac-embracing-gri</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDAC is initiating a GRI compatible reporting platform.  MAC may integrate TSM within other frameworks. Will this catalyze new growth in sustainability reporting in the mining sector? In October 2010, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) initiated the development of a new accountability and reporting platform for its e3 Plus: A Framework for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Octopus Paul Predicts More Canadian Mining Sustainability Reports</title>
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		<comments>http://prizmablog.com/2010/07/30/octopus-paul-predicts-more-canadian-mining-sustainability-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil and Gas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Officially retired from predicting world cup soccer games, Octopus Paul now expects proliferation of first-time sustainability reporting amongst Canadian listed mining companies. Will Paul be right again? About 2/3 of the world’s exploration and mining companies are headquartered/listed in Canada. And increasingly, extractive companies (particularly those with some appetite for political risk) are searching and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are Cost Drivers of Sustainability Reporting for First Timers?</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/06/27/what-are-cost-drivers-of-sustainability-reporting-for-first-timers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-are-cost-drivers-of-sustainability-reporting-for-first-timers</link>
		<comments>http://prizmablog.com/2010/06/27/what-are-cost-drivers-of-sustainability-reporting-for-first-timers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC Performance Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil and Gas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While some may still be wondering how long they can get away without reporting, others see this as an opportunity to leverage sunk costs, impress investors and drive performance improvement. All first time reporters will be wondering about one thing: what is the length of that proverbial string? What are cost drivers of inaugural sustainability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PDAC steals show at GRI session on MMSS</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/06/24/pdac-steals-show-at-gri-session-on-mmss/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pdac-steals-show-at-gri-session-on-mmss</link>
		<comments>http://prizmablog.com/2010/06/24/pdac-steals-show-at-gri-session-on-mmss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted in an earlier blog, GRI launched its Metals and Mining Sector Supplement during PDAC’s 78th Annual Conference held in early March in Toronto which attracted 21,600 attendees. So how and why did PDAC manage to steal the show at GRI’s June conference session on the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement? It seems that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFC gets out vuvuzella for sustainability reporting</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/06/19/ifc-gets-out-vuvuzella-for-sustainability-reporting/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ifc-gets-out-vuvuzella-for-sustainability-reporting</link>
		<comments>http://prizmablog.com/2010/06/19/ifc-gets-out-vuvuzella-for-sustainability-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jointly with GRI, the International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank Group) published a bridging document showing how strategies, system and data points developed to meet IFC Performance Standards can be used to generate GRI-type sustainability reports. About time to help capital project developers/sponsors to leverage expensive compliance reporting to create more shareholder value! Capital project sponsors [...]]]></description>
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