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Handbook on Environmental Due Diligence in Mineral Supply Chains

Overview

This handbook aims to help companies embed environmental considerations into their mineral supply chain due diligence procedures.

This Handbook provides an introduction to environmental issues in the upstream segment of mineral supply chains. It is intended to help downstream enterprises (metal traders and exchanges, component manufacturers, product manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers and retailers) understand how they can embed environmental considerations into their supply chain due diligence processes, while also helping upstream enterprises (miners, local traders and exporters, international concentrate traders, smelters and refiners, and recyclers) meet the due diligence expectations of their customers and other downstream business relationships.

This project provides publicly available information.

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Key information

Start date

September 2013

End date

Ongoing

Target group(s)

Companies; Smallholders and cooperatives;  Business associations

Sector(s)

energy and extractives

Type of initiative

Global

Type(s) of support

Information and guidance on due diligence process and legal requirements;  Practical tools for supply chain management, risk assessment and reporting

Type(s) of contributor

International organization; EU Member State 

Contributor(s)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Implementing organisation(s)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)