Download Engaging Mining Companies in Biodiversity Conservation

Vision of Engagement
• Environmentalists work with industry to
develop business practices that
 Reduce industry’s ecological footprint
 Contribute to conservation
 Create business benefits for companies
• Result is a net benefit for the
environment and for business
• Achieved through partnerships
between business, environmental
organizations and academia
Net Benefit
“Net Benefit”
• Minimize impact from
operations
• Find innovative ways for
companies to
contribute positively to
conservation
• Provide value to
participating companies
Strategy
• Engage industries that have the
greatest impact on critical
ecosystems
• Partner with industry leaders to
develop better business practices
that contribute to conservation and
create business value
• Collaborate with other environmental
organizations and research institutes
• Communicate results to key audiences
in business, the environmental
community, and government
Energy and Mining Program
• Energy and mining companies reduce the
ecological footprint of natural resource
development and contribute to
conservation of affected ecosystems
TheEnergy
Energyand
andBiodiversity
Biodiversity Initiative
Initiative
(EBI)
EBI aims to develop and promote best
practices for integrating biodiversity
conservation into oil and gas
development and transmission.
Participants
include:
 Conservation
 BP
International
 Enron
 The Nature Conservancy
 Shell
 Flora and Fauna
 Statoil
International
 ChevronTexaco
 The Smithsonian
Institution
 The World Conservation
Union (IUCN)
Mining in Africa*
• Mineral exploration and production
constitute significant parts of Africa’s
economies and remain important to future
economic growth.
• The continent is richly endowed with mineral
reserves and ranks first or second in terms
of concentration of world mineral reserves of
bauxite, cobalt, diamond, gold, manganese,
platinum-group metals and titanium
minerals (rutile and ilmenite), among others.
*From USGS 1999 Minerals Yearbook
Mining and Biodiversity in
Africa
 Mobil in Peru
Activities in Africa
Mining
• QMM (Rio Tinto) mine in Madagascar
• Rio Tinto mine - Simandou Range in the
Pic de Fon region, Guinea
• Gamsberg mine (Anglo American) in
South Africa
Petroleum
• ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil
partnerships in Bioko?
• BP and ChevronTexaco partnerships in
TFCA?