by acornintll | Mar 8, 2021 | Notes
ISSUE NO. 38: LENDERS’ GUIDE TO TCFD CLIMATE CHANGE RISK ASSESSMENT APPLICATION – LESSONS LEARNED AND OUTLOOK wo years ago, Blackrock[1] and other investors released reports citing that climate risks in assets are underpriced, and just last week the US Security and...
by acornintll | Mar 1, 2021 | Notes
ISSUE NO. 37: WHAT THE “S”? PART THREE – COMPANY APPROACHES TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION (DEI) In our previous posts exploring the social aspects of ESG, we have discussed the accelerating importance of “S” to investors, customers, workforce and local...
by acornintll | Feb 22, 2021 | Notes
ISSUE NO. 36: THE EXTRACTIVES AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INVOLVEMENT “Indigenous people don’t favor economic development!” “Tribal people are anti-extractives.” These are common perceptions encountered frequently in media and informal social...
by acornintll | Feb 8, 2021 | Notes
ISSUE NO. 35: OIL & GAS AND NGOS: NEW RULES OF ENGAGEMENT? Update: 10 Years Ago We Were Thinking… It has been just about ten years since we published this short piece on relationships between oil and gas companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Did we...
by acornintll | Feb 1, 2021 | Notes
ISSUE NO. 34: DEAR COLLEAGUE: R U REACHING UR STAKEHOLDERS? We know from experience that in-person stakeholder engagement is the ideal format for building meaningful dialogue. But in 2020, global pandemic made this all but impossible. Consequently, an explosion of...
by acornintll | Jan 27, 2021 | Notes
ISSUE NO. 33: THE TWO CULTURES: MINING VERSUS EVERYDAY PEOPLE AND WHAT MINERS SHOULD DO ABOUT IT – PART TWO Two factors dominate the mining industry’s DNA – one business-based and the other from science. Both are mindsets with unique assumptions, concepts and ways of...
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