Influencing International Mining Policy

EARTHWORKS works to promote more environmentally and socially responsible policies related to mining and extractive industries. We do so by monitoring and influencing policies developed by international institutions, funding agencies, governments, and multi-stakeholder bodies. 

Some examples of our work:

• Participating in the Extractives Industries Review, a commission established by former World Bank President James Wolfensohn to evaluate the Bank's role in funding extractive industries.  EARTHWORKS was part of the civil society coalition monitoring the EIR; we participated in consultations in Lisbon and Washington, DC, and provided comments on several drafts of the report. You can read the final EIR report at: www.eireview.org.
   
  
• Providing comments on the Metals and Mining Supplement of the Global Reporting Initiative.
   
  
• Monitoring the activities of the mining industry trade association, the International Council on Metals and Mining (ICMM), including its partnership with the World Conservation Union.