by Diana Connolly | May 3, 2022 | Insights
ISSUE 50: The Challenge of Mine Tailings and People Downstream Authors: Dean Slocum and Chris Anderson As mining companies worldwide prepare to meet an expanded and comprehensive new waste or tailings management standard, many have yet to focus on how they...
by Diana Connolly | Feb 1, 2022 | Insights
5 Cases for Hope in 2022 This new year dawns with daunting challenges on our most pressing sociopolitical and environmental risks – from the pandemic, to our climate, to human rights. As a team of social and environmental scientists who have dedicated our work...
by Diana Connolly | Nov 23, 2021 | Insights
ISSUE 49: The Role of General Counsels in the ESG World General counsels are faced with new set of challenges that call for broader awareness and supporting expertise: – Shareholder activism challenging the reliability of your carbon neutrality goals. – ...
by Diana Connolly | Oct 26, 2021 | Insights
ISSUE 48: Making ESG Impact Through Environmental Justice: 3 Approaches Boards are being flooded with environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact noise, and are hard-pressed to identify concrete, material ESG issues that can be understood, managed, and tracked...
by acornintll | Sep 15, 2021 | Insights
ISSUE 47: WORRIED ABOUT NIMBY? PEMBE!! Have you ever been asked if you would like to have an ‘___X___’ in your neighborhood? (Fill in the blank, could be a pump station, wind turbine, electrical transfer station, waste treatment facility, tank farm, refinery, you name...
by acornintll | Sep 15, 2021 | Insights, News
10th Anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Their Impact and Future Earlier this summer, Dean Slocum, President and Founder of Acorn International had a conversation with Martin Luff, Counsel at Vinson & Elkins and...
