Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the United Nations set out its sustainability ambitions through publication of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs provide a global blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.

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Mineral Supply Risk

The Sheila Khama Extractives Podcast

16th Jul 2021

A fascinating series on artisanal small scale mining, featuring guests from a broad range of relevant fields

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Sustainable Development Goals

UNESCO lecture series on earth materials for a sustainable and thriving society

30th Apr 2021

Recordings and materials related to the UNESCO Lecture Series organised in collaboration with IUGS and iCRAG

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Climate Change

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2020

For over a decade, the UNEP Emissions Gap Report has provided a yearly review of the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted [...]

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Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals explained

The Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better [...]

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Sustainable Development Goals

Aggregate confusion: the divergence of ESG ratings

This paper investigates the divergence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings. Based on data from six prominent rating agencies, the authors decompose [...]

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Demand Drivers

Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity

Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated biodiversity losses. However, generating the required technologies and infrastructure will drive [...]

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Climate Change

Green conflict minerals: the fuels of conflict in the transition to a low-carbon economy

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) identifies 23 minerals that will be critical to the development and deployment of solar panels, wind [...]

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Climate Change

Responsible mineral sourcing for renewable energy

This report explores how the planet can meet the demand for the minerals which will be needed to deliver on the clean energy [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

Mapping artisanal and small-scale mining to the Sustainable Development Goals

Pact and the University of Delaware’s Mapping Artisanal and Small-scale Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals (ASM-SDG Policy Assessment) is the first report [...]

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Demand Drivers

What role for ocean-based renewable energy and deep-seabed minerals in a sustainable future?

This paper analyses the underlying tension between the need for rapid decarbonisation, including that required for scaling up ocean-based renewable energy, and the [...]

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Climate Change

Minerals for climate action: the mineral intensity of the clean energy transition

An analysis of how the shift to a cleaner energy system could impact mineral demand

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Demand Drivers

UN Urbanisation Prospects 2018

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations has been revising and updating urban and rural [...]

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Circular Economy

A clean planet for all: a European strategic long long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy

The European Commission sets out its vision for a climate-neutral EU.

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Climate Change

Urbanization and the evolution of cities across 10,000 years

Today, more than half of all people in the world live in an urban area. By mid-century, this will increase to 70%. But as recently as [...]

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Sustainable Development Goals

Social license to operate and social impact assessment

From tea and coffee to cotton to cobalt, there is growing public interest and scrutiny around the impact, whether that be environmental or [...]

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Climate Change

Mineral resource governance in the 21st century: gearing extractive industries towards sustainable development

The UN International Resource Panel (IRP) sets out how we can ensure that international governance of our natural resources becomes intertwined with vital [...]

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Climate Change

Global logistics emissions council framework for logistics emissions accounting and reporting

The GLEC Framework is the global method for the calculation and reporting of logistics emissions.

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