How TDi connects critical minerals value chains

Manufacturers and OEMs face a different challenge – turning upstream risk data into decisions they can act on.

TDi’s approach is augmented due diligence – combining digital intelligence from the TDi Digital Platform, human expertise, and on-the-ground validation.

Projects we’ve worked on include:

• Supporting a major automotive OEM on supply chain visibility and CAHRA Index review, alongside CSDDD and EU Battery Regulation compliance
• Working with a major aerospace company on development of its Critical and Strategic Raw Materials strategy
• Working with an electronics company on its EU Battery Regulation-aligned due diligence management system.

At the consumer-facing end of the chain, TDi’s work has included:

• Developing a 23-material prioritisation roadmap for a consumer electronics brand’s responsible sourcing strategy through to 2030
• Supporting a luxury jewellery brand’s chain-of-custody requirements through a certified small-scale gold supply partnership
• Developing a forced labour risk toolkit for a major electronics company, to support compliance with tightening forced labour regulation.

TDi’s role here goes beyond advising – we convene. Projects we’ve been involved with include:

• TDi is a permanent Secretariat member of the Solar Stewardship Initiative, which we helped to develop, and now has more than 40 endorsing companies
• We provide the Project Management Office for the Circularity in Primary Pharmaceutical Packaging Accelerator (CiPPPA)
• We facilitate the National Mining Association’s sustainability task force
• TDi chairs the Secretariat of the Natural Polymers Group (NPG)

On the policy side, TDi advises government departments and multilateral institutions on critical mineral regulations and strategy.

We have also worked with standard setting initiatives on the development of many of the standards on which the industry relies, and carry out second- and third-party audits.

For investors and development finance institutions, TDi provides due diligence support that benchmarks specific investments against multilateral development banks’ own policies and OECD guidelines – helping capital providers understand the ESG risk in a critical minerals investment before it’s made.

Our projects have included:

• Analysing definitions of “legacy” in mining and the role investors can play in supporting positive legacies, for the Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030
• Conducting limited due diligence on an early-stage mining company ahead of an investment decision
• Delivering a comprehensive ESG gap assessment and strategic roadmap for a national mining sector, commissioned by a major multilateral fina institution
• Due diligence for exploration-stage mining investment on Indigenous Peoples’ rights.