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This report addresses whether mining can be described as sustainable since it is an industry whose core business depends on the depletion of raw natural resources.

The Framework provides guidance to users on how to establish a systematic stakeholder engagement process that generates the indicators, targets, and reporting systems needed to ensure to ensure greater transparency, effective responsiveness to stakeholders and improved overall organisational performance.

BSR has been actively involved in the "G3" Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Guidelines Revision process that is currently gathering stakeholder input to issue an updated set of Guidelines in October 2006. In this report, BSR reviews how the GRI Economic Performance Indicators have been applied by 33 companies.

This report develops a model for assessing the compatibility of proposed mines with the requirements of sustainability. The model is then applied to the Tulsequah Chief Mine reopening project proposed by Redcorp Ventures Ltd.

Too often, mining companies want to discuss sustainability only in terms of how to mine, not whether to mine. For any sustainability policy to be complete it must address the issues of where and when it is appropriate or not to mine.

Business for Development singles out framework conditions as the most important factor affecting business investment. The publication strongly advocates focusing investment on:

This document is an expanded version of the oil and gas industry sector report publishedby the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

This paper is a personal history of the MMSD project and has several purposes. First, it is intended as an administrative history of a major global public policy process, designed to be helpful to people who are thinking about developing, managing, or participating in such projects in the future, especially those who believe, as I do, in the fundamental importance of such processes at this stage of evolution of global institutions. It is intended as a learning tool. It focuses on questions of architecture, administration, and the practical decisions that had to be taken.

Facing the Future reports on the experience and outcomes of this process. It recommends specific actions to enhance the minerals sector’s contribution to Australia’s sustainable development.

The Mineral Resources Forum is an online information resource for issues related to mining, minerals, metals and sustainable development that seeks to engage a broad range of users, including governments, resource companies, and concerned civil society institutions.