The industry is doing ESG reporting, but is it doing it well? Issues discussed include: • What makes for a best practice ESG Report? What differences, if any, should there be between how, say, an exploration junior and a major reports? • Why is there no single industry ESG reporting standard? • What regulatory and industry guidance is there? • Dealing with competing demands from different stakeholders — investors, customers, rating agencies — all requiring ESG information to be parcelled up in slightly different ways • Avoiding the common mistakes of greenwashing and green hushing • Should the miner’s ESG reports be audited? • Reporting scope 1, 2,3 and 4 emissions
Keynote Panel at Resourcing Tomorrow, 2023