Reflections on the opportunities for mining companies to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in sub – Saharan Africa

Yakovleva, Natalia; Kotilainen, Juha; Toivakka, Maija

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2017.06.010

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“…This "blinkeredness" (Gilberthorpe and Banks, 2012) can lead to corporate strategies that are incompatible with community structures, political paradigms, or other contingencies, creating problems that might otherwise have been avoided. These problems have led to calls for developing protocols that are regionally-or locally-specific (Salman et al, 2018;Yakovleva et al, 2017), yet our survey found only one framework that was tailored to a particular region. Despite this issue, nearly all of the frameworks drew from specific case study examples across the world.…”

Section: Developing Region-specific Protocolsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Frameworks for conflict mediation in international infrastructure development: A comparative overview and critical appraisal

Lezak

Ahearn

McConnell

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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While the extractive industries, and their related infrastructure complexes, are highlighted as key to economic development, they often come at a cost. Most infrastructure projects involve a network of "stakeholder" parties; even though developers are allocating more resources to stakeholder engagement, conflict surrounding infrastructure development continues to rise. Whilst the causes of this paradox are numerous, ranging from the increasing demand for natural resources to the limited regulatory capacity of governments in the global south to oversee developers, they also highlight the lack of engagement with effective conflict resolution mechanisms. This paper undertakes a comparative review of 21 existing frameworks or "toolkits" presented by international organizations for avoiding and resolving mining-related conflicts in emerging markets. This analysis has four aims: i) to identify the dominant trends in frameworks that address conflict arising from the extractive industry and related infrastructural systems; ii) to identify the weaknesses and limitations of existing frameworks; iii) to assess opportunities for innovation that might increase the adoption of more effective conflict resolution strategies; iv) to forecast how existing frameworks may need to adapt and respond to emerging global shifts in development investments. Addressing these aims will contribute to understandings of conflict resolution discourses presented in existing frameworks including the procedures and strategies identified, and how agency and participation is conceived. 1. Introduction: In October 2012, a Mongolian NGO filed a formal complaint with the Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The CAO mediates disputes that originate from IFC-funded development projects. In this case, the project in question was the Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine, one of the largest discovered deposits of its kind (Porter, 2016). The complaint, submitted on behalf of local nomadic pastoralists, asserted that Oyu Tolgoi negatively affected the community's socioeconomic prospects and was responsible for water and pasture impacts that threatened livelihoods. This initiated a CAO-led arbitration and dispute resolution process between three parties: Rio Tinto (the mine's parent company), the local government, and the local community. What followed was a carefully choreographed process of joint fact-finding, training and capacity building, developing and articulating negotiation positions, and mediation. Seven years later, an agreement has been reached and the strained relationship between Oyu Tolgoi and the local community has improved. Across the industry, the Oyu Tolgoi conflict is widely regarded as exceptional, both for its success in assembling various stakeholders and the bilateral acceptability of the brokered outcomes (Edwards, 2017). Most mining-related conflict in emerging economies does not unfold so neatly, often because dispute resolution, where it occurs, is conducted in a largely ad hoc...

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Section: Developing Region-specific Protocolsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Frameworks for conflict mediation in international infrastructure development: A comparative overview and critical appraisal

Lezak

Ahearn

McConnell

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Developments in international legislation, along with increasing stakeholders' pressure, have urged companies to focus and manage multilateral and complex environmental, social and economic issues (Doz and Kosonen 2010). Although engagement with such subjects is not new, however, United Nations 2030 Agenda and SDGs have set the legal framework for private business to engage and demonstrate compliance and achievements towards measurable sustainability objectives (Yakovleva et al 2017). Under such regulatory and business evolution, CSR can constitute a strategic management tool that could assist companies to integrate and achieve their sustainability performance.…”

Section: Triple Bottom Line Approach To Sustainability and Csr Correlmentioning

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Embracing Sustainability in Shipping: Assessing Industry’s Adaptations Incited by the, Newly, Introduced ‘triple bottom line’ Approach to Sustainable Maritime Development

Fasoulis

Kurt

2019

Social Sciences

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Increasing environmental, social and economic problems, born by unceasing economic growth, have transformed our approach to the development concept. The 1980s saw the appearance of the sustainable development term and, during the 1990s, sustainability notion was implicitly framed as an integrated concept, frequently, termed as the ‘triple bottom line’ approach. Among several initiatives and efforts to balance our economic and societal pursuits with environmental challenges the, lately, introduced United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) refer to a remarkable evolution, which came to strengthen and establish sustainability conception as an integrated social, economic and environmental triptych. International shipping, as the major carrier of world trade and significant contributor to environmental degradation has, definitely, a vital role to play in facilitating the UN’s sustainability venture. Although there is a great amount of legislative instruments, codes and guidance to address sustainability in shipping, though, limited research has been devoted to identify how the tanker and dry bulk maritime sector has responded to such recent cohesive attitude to sustainable maritime development. Through a quantitative research approach this empirical study aimed to investigate maritime industry’s insights and attitudes in relation to the, newly, introduced triple bottom line approach to global sustainable development. Research data were collected via a questionnaire survey conducted to 50 tanker and/or dry bulk shipping companies. Pearson’s chi-square test of independence and Spearman’s correlation coefficient measures were utilized to test our three formulated hypotheses. Findings highlighted increasing awareness and adaptation of the maritime sector to the triple bottom line approach and, subsequent, sustainability absorption under the auspices of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) business model. Introduction of sustainable development in an integrated manner appears to have influenced the extent that statutory maritime regulations occupy to the formulation of marine safety management systems. To sum up, the integrated management system model turned out to be the most rated tactic to manage sustainability and, as such, a conceptual CSR framework was proposed to facilitate such an objective.

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“…In contrast, the international literature on mine closure has a greater focus on the social and economic impacts caused when a mine closes (Cochilo 2002;Yakovleva et al 2017). This is particularly true for mining in developing countries where mining operations employ significantly more people, at lower wages, and governments are less able to provide services to their citizens (Goh & Effendi 2017;Kotsadam & Tolonen 2016;Peck & Sinding 2009).…”

Section: Relinquishment In the Mining Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mine relinquishment policy in Australia

Tiemann¹,

McDonald²,

Middle³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Mine Closure

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The profile of mine rehabilitation and closure continues to gain momentum in Australia, with an increasing focus by governments, industry and the broader community on a range of mine closure related topics. Despite decades of mine closure research and rehabilitation activities, there are limited examples within Australia of mining operations closing successfully and allowing relinquishment of mine tenure. A review of policy across Australia demonstrates that no clear pathway to relinquishment exists within mine closure legislation. While policy gaps contribute to the limited examples of successful relinquishment, defined in this paper as the transfer of liability, there are a number of additional roadblocks. A major one being the reality of residual risk and liability existing after a mine has been successfully closed. Closing a mine is an investment decision, with mining executives and boards requiring certainty of process and outcome to invest in closure. Moving forward government, industry and the community need to understand and accept that residual risk and liability will exist in successfully closed post-mined land. To ensure that mining is a temporary land use, mechanisms for improving relinquishment outcomes, explored in this paper, and innovative thinking around post-mining land uses must also be employed. This paper presents approaches to relinquishment, including risk and liability determination and post-closure funding arrangements throughout the mining lifecycle. When coupled with a defined regulatory process for relinquishment, these can drive better mine closure outcomes.

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Reflections on the opportunities for mining companies to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in sub – Saharan Africa

Cited by 50 publications

References 10 publications

Frameworks for conflict mediation in international infrastructure development: A comparative overview and critical appraisal

Frameworks for conflict mediation in international infrastructure development: A comparative overview and critical appraisal

Embracing Sustainability in Shipping: Assessing Industry’s Adaptations Incited by the, Newly, Introduced ‘triple bottom line’ Approach to Sustainable Maritime Development

Mine relinquishment policy in Australia

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