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A University of Queensland researcher has co-written the first publicly available Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) for a proposed gas project in Papua New Guinea.

UQ Sustainable Minerals Institute's Associate Professor Nicholas Bainton said the report’s publication demonstrates the slow evolution of the international community’s expectations of the extractive industries.

Extracting Innovations: Mining, Energy and Technological Change in the Digital Age is co-edited by SMI affiliates Professor Saleem H. Ali and Dr. Tim Grice just published by Taylor and Francis – CRC Press, considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges.

The purpose of the Guide is to enable governments and other stakeholders to better manage the environmental and human rights impacts of mining, in a way that promotes just and sustainable outcomes for local communities and inclusive governance of the mining sector.

SMI's Lynda Lawson co-writes new International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) report for the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development.

Jo-Anne Everingham gave a plenary address and ran a workshop at the 8th Annual Best Practice Ecological Rehabilitation of Mined Lands Conference (2018) organised by  the Tom Farrell Institute for the Environment (TFI), the University of Newcastle on 12 April 2018.

CSRM have just released a new discussion paper on the social aspects of mine closure through their Social Aspects of Mine Closure Consortium.