The fundamentals of creating social value and environmental resilience that supports shared prosperity Rohitesh Dhawan, President and CEO International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) This speech was delivered as a keynote at this year’s IMARC event in Sydney.
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he fundamentals of creating social value and environmental resilience that supports shared prosperity”. That’s a lot of BS, isn’t it? And by BS of course, I mean “business speak”; I don’t know what you were thinking I meant by BS! 32
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I think this somewhat wordy title is, in fact, very worthy. It gets to the heart of a simple but profound question that society is putting at the feet of all companies: when the world is literally on fire and billions of people are living at the edge of survival, can we trust you to make it better, or at the very least, not make it worse? That’s a relevant question for all sectors, but for mining, it is existential because of what is to come. By now, we have said and heard a thousand different ways that mining has to grow exponentially to meet the world’s demand for critical minerals – so I won’t repeat those numbers here.
