Mapping Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals An Atlas

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For companies seeking to align their operations with the SDGs, the goals relating to social inclusion, environmental sustainability and economic development are a useful starting point: Environmental Sustainability: Mining activities typically cause impacts on land, water, the climate and the flora, fauna and people that depend on these resources: – SDG6 – Clean Water and Sanitation, and SDG15 – Life on Land: Mine development requires access to land and water, presenting significant adverse impacts on lands and natural resources that can be mitigated or avoided. – SDG7 – Energy Access and Sustainability and SDG13 – Climate Action: Mining activities, are energy and emissions intensive, presenting opportunities for greater efficiency as well as expanding access to energy. Social Inclusion: Mining can significantly impact local communities, bringing economic opportunities, but also challenges relating to livelihoods and human rights: – SDG1 – End Poverty, SDG5 – Gender Equality and SDG10 – Reduced Inequalities: Mining generates significant revenues through taxes, royalties and dividends for governments to invest in economic and social development, in addition to opportunities for jobs and business locally. Mining companies can take an inclusive approach by working with communities to understand the mines’ actual and potential positive and negative impacts. Companies can also support participatory local decision-making processes regarding the mining operations, the equitable allocation of benefits and the resolution of grievances, and identify and expand opportunities to strengthen the voice and influence of marginalized groups, including women, to ensure that inequalities are reduced, rather than reinforced, by the economic opportunities a mine may bring. – SDG8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth: Mining can generate new economic opportunities for citizens and members of local communities, including jobs, training, and business development relating to mining operations, associated service providers, or new local economies linked to the mine. – SDG9 – Infrastructure, Innovation and Industrialization and SDG12 – Responsible Consumption and Production: Mining can help drive economic development and diversification through direct and indirect economic benefits and by spurring the construction of new infrastructure for transport, communications, water and energy. Mining also provides materials critical for renewable technologies and the opportunity for companies to collaborate across the supply chain to minimize waste, and to reuse and recycle. Achieving sustainable development is challenging and the mining industry must ramp up its engagement, partnership and dialogue with other industry sectors, government, civil society and local communities. To realize the full potential for contributing to the achievement of the goals, mining companies must continue to work to integrate changes into their core business and, along with the mining industry as a whole, bolster collaboration, partnership and meaningful dialogue with government, civil society, communities and other stakeholders. – SDG16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions: Mining can contribute to peaceful societies and the rule of law by preventing and remedying companycommunity conflict, respecting human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples, avoiding illicit transfers of funds to public officials or other persons, ensuring transparent reporting of revenue flows, and supporting the representative decisionmaking of citizens and communities in extractives development. Economic Development: Mining can have a local, regional and national impact on economic development and growth that can be leveraged to build new infrastructure, new technologies and workforce opportunities. 4
Adapted from Global Goals (www.globalgoals.org) 5
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Page 5: Executive Summary In September 2015
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Page 13 and 14: Introduction What are the SDGs and
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Integrate SDG13 into core business
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SDG14: Life Below Water Conserve an
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SDG16: Peace, Justice and Strong In
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Case studies and initiatives Countr
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77 IZA, 2013. Poverty, Inequality,
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