The second public consultation on the IRMA Standard v2.0 closed a few days ago, and IRMA wants to warmly thank all the organizations and individuals that engaged.

Here are some initial statistics showing the level and diversity of interactions:

  • 82 organizations have engaged in the revision process, covering all regions of the world (see chart below).
  • Comments have been received from all categories of stakeholders and rights-holders, offering a wide and diverse range of perspectives.
  • We note and appreciate the substantial feedback received from multiple organizations that had not contributed during the first round.
  • Several organizations that had contributed during the first round have indicated to IRMA that they had no further comment to share during this second round.

As shown in the pie chart below, IRMA received submissions from all categories of stakeholders and rights-holders:

  • 29% of the contributing organizations are NGOs
  • 23% are companies involved in mining and/or processing and/or exploration
  • 15% are downstream purchasers of mined material
  • 11% are consultancy or audit firms
  • 8% are governments or multilateral organizations
  • 5% are finance institutions or banks or investors
  • 4% are Indigenous organizations
  • Remaining 5% include standard-setters, rating agencies, organized labor, affected communities, and academia

What’s next?

We will now carefully review and process all the contributions, in order to prepare a final version of the Standard which our equally-governed multi-stakeholder Board of Directors will use to inform its discussions and standard approval process.

In the meantime, we are collecting the final answers from the 52 individual Expert Advisors who volunteered to guide us with advice regarding targeted questions on 6 topics.

And a cross-stakeholder Expert Working Group on tailings and mine waste will start soon
(its composition is being finalized).

If you have any question regarding this process ,you can contact our Standards Director, Pierre Petit-De Pasquale at: pdepasquale@responsiblemining.net

You can find more information about our Standards Development Process here.

 

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