09/05/2023 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: Climate Lobbying Assessment Tools and Their Application to Methane Emissions

Decarbonizing the economy is multifaceted; companies have different means and opportunities to effect this change. Many of them can develop new technologies and processes that help mitigate climate change and/or adapt to its consequences. Even more, businesses can reduce their GHG emissions.

06/09/2023 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: GHG Accounting in Metals & Mining

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have become an important metric widely used by investors on par with earnings and other financial parameters. Yet, it entered the realm of investment management very recently, and the approaches to GHG measurement and reporting are still being hammered out.

03/28/2023 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: Tax Transparency Issues and Their Impact on Extractive Companies

Profit shifting and tax avoidance schemes carry significant legal, regulatory, and public image risks for companies and investors.

01/25/2023 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: Governance Challenges in Transition Minerals Supply Chains

How can companies, governments and investors act together to avoid growing risks in the value chains of transition minerals?

12/15/2022 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: Monitoring EM Companies’ Methane Emissions

Legislation passed by parliament on Tuesday means that anyone born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products.

It will mean the number of people able to buy tobacco will shrink each year. By 2050, for example, 40-year-olds will be too young to buy cigarettes.

12/05/2022 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: Monitoring EM Companies’ Methane Emissions

Where can investors get reliable and up-to-date information about methane emissions?

12/01/2022 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: Net Zero Targets in EM: Coverage, Quality, Integrity

Net zero targets are steadily becoming a norm for companies and countries in developed markets, and this trend is spreading into emerging ones. Yet, investors will be wise to ask: What is behind these lofty claims? Can we rely on them? Are there achievable plans behind the targets?

09/29/2022 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: Human Rights Transition Minerals Tracker

This webinar discussed a tool that allows investors to assess human rights risks, policies, and practices of the most important mining companies that supply cobalt, copper, lithium, manganese, nickel, and zinc to the renewable energy and electric vehicles sectors. 

07/12/2022 - 09:00

Extractive Industries Program: Gender Equity in the Mining Context

This roundtable discussion focused on the corporate governance aspects of gender equity, such as labor force composition, professional opportunities, work environment and safety for women etc.

04/24/2022 - 11:00

Extractive Industries Program : Water Management in the Mining Industry

EMIA’s Extractive Industries Program hosted Dr.

03/08/2022 - 09:00

Extractive Industries Program : Methane Emissions in the Oil & Gas Industry

EMIA hosted Jonathan Stern, honorary professor at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law & Policy, University of Dundee along with Andrew Howell and Dominic Watson from the Environmental Defense Fund to discuss “Methane Emissions

11/14/2021 - 09:00

Extractive Industries Program : Payments-to-Governments Disclosure - New Opportunities and Challenges

Over the last two decades, the disclosure of project-level payments to governments has become a global norm in the mining, oil, and gas sectors, thanks to overwhelming investor support.

10/28/2021 - 10:00

Extractive Industries Program: Understanding Community Development Agreements (CDAs), challenges and effectiveness

Mining and oil & gas projects are often located in remote locations with significant impact on local communities. It is essential for companies to ensure these communities are on board before and during the project.

06/03/2021 - 11:00

Extractive Industries Program : Oil & Gas Climate Risk Disclosures

EMIA hosted Isabel Munilla, Director of Ceres, Paul Bugala, Independent Sustainable Investment Analyst, and Eric Kane, Head of ESG Research, Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss oil & gas climate risk disclosures.

05/25/2021 - 10:00

Extractives Industries Program: Mining & Indigenous Land Rights in Brazil: Proposed Legislation and Potential Consequences

EMIA hosted Claudia Melim-McLeod, Senior Advisor for Sustainable Finance at the Rainforest Foundation Norway to discuss the proposal introduced by the Brazilian government to permit mining inside Indigenous lands.

11/12/2020 - 09:00

Extractive Industries Program : Webinar on Deep Sea Mining

The Alliance extractive industries program hosted a webinar on Deep Sea Mining (DSM).