Webinar: Mining, ESG safeguards and the spatial economy | landscape-scale approaches

Register for our October webinar, jointly organised by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and TDi Sustainability, as part of the critical minerals knowledge series.  The speakers will be discussing landscape-scale approaches to due diligence in mining – exploring how and when regional economic development can be built into large-scale mining project architecture.

The discussion will include:
– How large-scale mining presents structurally different challenges to environmental and social safeguards, in ways that stand apart from other key investment areas
– How mining reshapes entire regional economies and geographies, not just mining sites
– How the cumulative impacts of mine development can be assessed and mitigated across a broad spatial landscape
– Case studies and practical examples, with a focus on biodiversity and good practice guidelines for achieving no net loss of biodiversity in practice, at a landscape scale
– How to address the challenges around biodiversity accounting at the landscape-scale – developing robust baselines, assessing impacts and the monitoring and application of adaptive management

Who should attend?
– Safeguard specialists who want to understand how to design meaningful safeguards at the landscape scale, to help meet a broad range of stakeholder and reporting requirements across the mining value chain
– Investors who want to understand the type of risk identification and management they should be looking for in large-scale mining developments
– Mining companies who want to understand the cumulative impacts of even small-scale development on biodiversity at the landscape scale, and how to identify and mitigate those risks, to support their implementation of, and compliance with, mining standards
– Community representatives who would like to engage with mining companies on economic and environmental development at a broader scale
– Standard setters who want to understand how to better address indirect and cumulative effects at the landscape scale within their criteria
– Government departments who want to understand the impact of large scale mining projects on Regional Development Strategies, and communities and the environment at a landscape or country-level

Meet the panel:
– Claire Alidenes | Principal Investment Specialist, Asian Development Bank
– Peter Austin | Regional & Economic Development Specialist
– Sally Johnson | Biodiversity Specialist, Fairfields Consulting
– Assheton Stewart Carter | Executive Chair, TDi Sustainability