Working Group on NonFerrous Metals Production

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Working Group on Non-Ferrous Metals Production

• The Hague 25 November 2002

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Progress Report to Consultative Forum

• Describe WG programme activities in 2002
• Focus areas
• Drivers for SD in metals/minerals production
• Community engagement practices
• Business case for sustainable development
• Conclusions and Recommendations

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Activities in 2002

• Toronto Workshop March 10-12
• Involvement of financial community commercial
  lenders, World Bank, green funds
• Little evidence of better access to capital
• Health safety is often overlooked
• On-going lack of appropriate indicators
• SD driver initiatives largely government-led

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Areas of Focus 1 SD Drivers

• From SD drivers inventory collected (58)
• Most initiatives focused on environment
• Most government-led
• 20 effective, 15 failed
• Criteria for assessing effectiveness were not
  reported in one case contradictory

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Areas of Focus 2 Community Engagement

• From CE approaches inventory collected (30)
• Most initiatives from developed countries
• Most industry-led
• 16 effective, 3 failed
• Focus mainly on capacity building tools to solve
  local problems

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Areas of Focus 3 Business Case for SD

• To date, no evidence that good SD practice gets
  preferential treatment from banks and other
  institutions
• Those with good SD practice tend to outperform,
  BUT no conclusive link

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Conclusions and Recommendations - 1

• Develop criteria/indicators for evaluating
  inventories of case studies
• Combine the work done to date on SD drivers and
  CE approaches

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Conclusions and Recommendations - 2

• Possible areas of focus going forward
• Identify role of governments in assisting SD
  policies
• Assess the role of financial sector
• Integrate work with other WGs