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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Action by operationalising these commitments in your daily work and to recognise that Indigenous Peoples need to be supported in their capacity building efforts. That support means providing them with resources, both financial as well as technical support, so that they are able to really effectively participate in all the discussions leading to the solutions that climate change and biodiversity require. The mining and metals sector has the opportunity to profoundly and positively influence both our planet's health and industry sustainability by adopting nature positive initiatives to mitigate and reverse environmental impacts, and by ensuring resource longevity sits at the very heart of this effort. “Taking collective action and showing principled leadership on nature positive initiatives is crucial for the sector, so the ICMM Nature Position Statement is an important milestone on this journey. The journey towards a sustainable future in the metals and mining sector must continue and I would urge ICMM members to strive for greater governance and transparency in integrating nature into business decisions and developing robust metrics for supporting progress towards nature-positive outcomes. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development welcomes the leadership of ICMM to address the business continuity risk of nature loss. There's general consensus now that one company alone cannot achieve nature positive but can contribute to a nature positive future through both individual and collective actions. Therefore, it's really encouraging to see in the ICMM Position Statement actions that address those different scales – building on site level and net gain actions,
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