Tailings in the mining sector: opportunities for investor action
The Principles for Responsible Investment podcast
English - September 25, 2019 09:45 - 11 minutes - 5.73 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsInvesting Business pri responsibleinvestment unpri Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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At PRI in Person, the PRI’s Elena Espinoza spoke with John Howchin, Secretary-General, Council of Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds, and Jaime Gornsztejn, Director, Hermes EOS, about tailings in the mining sector.
We sat down with them following a breakout session with Amanda Andrade, a survivor of the Brumadinho dam disaster in early 2019. We discussed what the opportunities are for investor action. How can investors effectively carry out engagements with mining companies? What are the new investor expectations on mining companies? And what will be the consequences for companies who don’t comply with these expectations?
Length: 11:03