The educational resource Tailings Management and Social Performance: Navigating the 'GISTM’ developed by The University of Queensland’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) is now available for free in both Spanish and Portuguese.
Shifting Australia’s electricity sector to low-carbon technologies and closing coal plants is vital to tackling climate change. But such transitions are easier said than done.
Government regulators responsible for some of Queensland’s largest projects will develop their Social Impact Assessment (SIA) expertise through a new partnership with the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI).
A collaborative project to benchmark how Rio Tinto Iron Ore works with Indigenous businesses has been showcased at the Aboriginal Enterprises In Mining, Energy & Exploration (AEMEE) Conference in Cairns.
The urgency to provide metals for the energy transition is putting pressure on the legal safeguards and approval processes governing mining, according to University of Queensland (UQ) researchers, and the consequences could compromise sustainable development.
Improving the governance of natural resources will be the focus for five new Higher Degree Research students recently recruited by the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining.
A team from the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining has launched a new teaching and learning resource promoting awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing low-carbon energy transition dynamics across the Arctic.
New research suggests that increased demand for energy transition metals (ETMs) could be more disruptive to some communities than winding back production of thermal coal.
When researcher Dr Sarah Holcombe was undertaking her PhD field research in the late 1990s, she didn’t realise how important the recordings she made of story and song would become for the next generation.
