Handbook on Environmental Due Diligence in Mineral Supply Chains

Annex B. Non-exhaustive list of tools to identify, assess and manage environmental risks and impacts

Accountability, ratings and disclosure

• AA1000 AccountAbility Principles

• GRI Standards: 101 Foundation and 102 General Disclosures

• Task Force for Nature Financial Disclosures v2.0 (TNFD) and its Glossary of Key Terms

• Task Force on Climate‑Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

• Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)

• Ecovadis

• Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)

• MSCI

• Sustainalytics

• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI)

Best Available Techniques (BAT) reference documents (BREFs) – for example

• Production of Cement, Lime and Magnesium Oxide – BREF BATC (04.2013)

• Emissions from Storage – BREF (07.2006)

• Energy Efficiency – BREF (02.2009)

• Ferrous Metals Processing Industry – BREF (12.2001)

• Industrial Cooling Systems – BREF (12.2001)

• Iron and Steel Production – BREF BATC (03.2012)

• Non-ferrous Metals Industries – BREF BATC (06.2016)

• Refining of Mineral Oil and Gas – BREF BATC (10.2014)

• Waste Treatment – BREF BATC (08.2018)

• Manufacture of Glass – BREF BATC (03.2012)

• Ceramic Manufacturing Industry – BREF (08.2007)

Biodiversity

• Good Practice Guide for Mining and Biodiversity

• Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)

Community and stakeholder engagement

• IHRB Promoting Human Rights and Ensuring Social Inclusion in the Extractives Sector.

• IFC Stakeholder Engagement Practice Handbook

• AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard

• OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in the Extractive Sector

Greenhouse gas emissions

• GHG Protocol

Impact Assessment

• IFC Performance Standard 1. Social and Environmental Assessment and Management Systems

• WBCSD Cement Sustainability Initiative Guidelines for Environmental & Social Impact Assessment.

• International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) Good Practice Guidance on Health Impact Assessment

• IAIA The Circular Economy and Impact Assessment - A Primer

• IAIA The State of Digital Impact Assessment Practice

• IFC Good Practice Handbook - Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

• ISO 14040 Environmental management – Life cycle assessment – Principles and framework

• Ecoinvent Database

Risk Assessment and Management.

• ISO 31000 – Risk management

Tailings management

• Global Industry Standard on Tailings

• Guidelines for Responsible Mine Tailings

Water management

• UNEP Integrated Water Resources Management

• UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme

• AWS International Water Stewardship Standard

• CEO Water Mandate’s Water Disclosure Guidelines

• Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas (wri.org)

Grievance mechanisms, incident reporting and monitoring

• International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), Handling and Resolving Local-level Concerns and Grievances: Human rights in the mining and metals sector

• Kufatilia (“to track” in Swahili) is an SMS-based platform to support incident reporting and monitoring through the work of a network of Civil Society Organisations in Eastern DRC.

Remedy and/or remediation

• Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law

Relevant initiatives

• Towards Sustainable Mining

• The Raw Materials Outlook Platform

• The Materials Insight

• Water Resilience Coalition