Eramet accelerates its CSR commitment with the launch of the first audit within the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance system
May 11 2023 - 1:45AM
Eramet accelerates its CSR commitment with the launch of the first
audit within the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance system
Paris, 11th May 2023, 8.45am CET
PRESS RELEASE
Eramet accelerates its CSR
commitment with the
launch of the first audit within the Initiative
for Responsible Mining Assurance system
Eramet has chosen to independently
assess the CSR performance of its operational sites through the
Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). The voluntary
IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining makes it possible for
independent audit firms to transparently assess a mining operation
according to internationally-recognized
best-practice criteria. After having carried out a
self-assessment at the end of 2022, Eramet has signed agreements to
begin the independent evaluation of its
Eramet Grande Côte
Opérations (GCO) site in Senegal. The
launch of this external assessment by an IRMA trained third party
audit firm will enable Eramet to be among the first mining groups
to demonstrate its public commitment to the IRMA
process.
Finalized in 2018, the IRMA Standard establishes
an international standard to assess the performance of operating
mines from a social and environmental point of view. This standard
was developed over a ten-year period through a public consultation
process involving more than 100 entities and various organizations,
including mining companies, customers and downstream end-users of
mining products, NGOs, unions and communities.
Equal stakeholder governance (NGOs,
international trade unions, buyers, host communities,
representatives of the financial sector and mining companies) sets
IRMA apart from industry-run standards, helps ensure its
legitimacy, and guarantees the high level of requirement of the
standard as well as the transparency of the mine assessment
process.
For several years, Eramet has been committed to
a voluntary approach to progress that puts corporate social
responsibility at the heart of its strategy and activities. It is
reflected in its corporate purpose: To become a reference in the
responsible transformation of the Earth's mineral resources, for
‘living well’ together. The launch of this external audit marks
another important step in the Group's approach. The IRMA Standard’s
criteria cover all the aspects retained by Eramet in its CSR
roadmap in terms of occupational safety, community relations,
environmental protection, human rights and governance.
In committing to an IRMA assessment of our GCO
operations, Eramet welcomes feedback from stakeholders and
encourages broad engagement of community members, workers, NGOs,
our customers, investors and others. Through this increased
dialogue we hope to better understand areas where we can further
improve performance. Once the assessment process begins, contact
information for the audit firm will be made available on IRMA's
website and any interested stakeholder may sign up to share
perspectives or ask to be added to an update list.
After this first external audit in Senegal,
Eramet aims to engage all its mining sites in this independent
verification process by 2027.
Virginie de
Chassey, Chief Sustainability
Officer, said: “Creating the conditions for sustainable
performance requires a rigorous approach that meets the strictest
international standards. By choosing IRMA, we want to be demanding
and transparent in all the ecosystems in which we operate.”
Press kit available here.
Calendar
23.05.2023: Shareholders’ General Meeting
26.07.2023: Publication of 2023 half-year results
26.10.2023: Publication of 2023 Group third-quarter turnover
ABOUT ERAMET
Eramet transforms the Earth’s mineral resources
to provide sustainable and responsible solutions to the growth of
the industry and to the challenges of the energy transition.
Its employees are committed to this through
their civic and contributory approach in all the countries where
the mining and metallurgical group is present.
Manganese, nickel, mineral sands, lithium, and
cobalt: Eramet recovers and develops metals that are essential to
the construction of a more sustainable world.
As a privileged partner of its industrial
clients, the Group contributes to making robust and resistant
infrastructures and constructions, more efficient means of
mobility, safer health tools and more efficient telecommunications
devices.
Fully committed to the era of metals, Eramet’s
ambition is to become a reference for the responsible
transformation of the Earth’s mineral resources for living well
together.
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