MMSD – North America's ISO participants identified 10 priority actions for follow-up. These are summarized below. The implementation process for the resulting Strategy for Change is based first on encouraging existing relevant initiatives where they are already underway, and second on facilitating partnerships between interests.
Together these actions provide an opportunity to:
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address the highest priority actions while sharing the responsibility for action amongst the broadest possible range of interests;
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maximize efficiencies while nourishing the engagement process that was initiated through MMSD – NA;
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build on the good will that now lies between the IISD Mining/Minerals Team and the various communities of interest; and
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pursue a collaborative and innovative approach to public policy development.
The IISD Mining/Minerals Team has categorized the follow-up activities into four tasks:
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Follow-up Task 1. Progress Oversight Group. Creation of a mechanism to: (1) affect coordination between the activities of all the various players; (2) serve as a kind of clearinghouse of information; and (3) report to the Mines Ministers of Canada AGM on progress achieved.
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Follow-up Task 2. Pilot Applications of the Seven Questions (7QS) Assessment Framework. Generation of a number of pilots of the 7QS; subsequent reconvening of the various interests (corporate, First Nation, government, non-government, academic) to collaboratively revise the system based on field experience.
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Follow-up Task 3. Support the Convening of Collaborative Efforts. Follow-up on Recommendations 4 (Performance), 6 (Dispute Prevention and Resolution), 2 (Legacy Future), 8 (Decision-Support) and 9 (Learning/Research Support)
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Follow-up Task 4. Equity Review. Follow-up on Recommendation 5. Undertaking a review of the distribution of costs, benefits, and risks associated with mining and mineral activities: how to best identify all of the costs, benefits, and risks; how to fairly distribute them between implicated interests.
| MMSD – North America Recommendation |
Follow-up Convener |
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| 1. Legacy Past: Increase efforts to address the human and environmental legacy of past mining practices and to prevent the same from happening in the future. |
National Advisory Committee on Orphaned and Abandoned Mine (Manitoba ADM, chair). |
| 2. Legacy Future: Strengthen the mix of rules, market incentives and voluntary programs to prevent the same from happening in the future |
Department of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia (Vancouver) |
| 3. Pilot the Seven Questions framework: Initiate pilot tests of the Seven Questions framework to further its development. |
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Winnipeg |
| 4. Performance: Enhance capacity to reward good and discourage poor performance by the mining industry and others. |
Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC, Toronto) with the Northwest Mining Association (NWMA, Denver) |
| 5. Equity: Clarify how the costs, benefits and risks associated with mining/minerals projects and operations are currently shared among companies, communities and governments and how that sharing might be made more fair in the future. |
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Winnipeg |
| 6. Disputes: Design and implement mechanisms to prevent disputes in the first place and more effectively address them if they do occur. |
M.J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, SFU (Vancouver) |
| 7. Recycling: Improve the policy regime governing recycling to allow more recycling while protecting human health from hazardous material. |
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| 8. Decision-Support: Re-design the decision-support model used by mining companies to better integrate environmental and social costs, benefits and risks with more traditional economic factors. |
Faculty of Engineering, Laurentian University (Sudbury) |
| 9. Learning/Research Support: Strengthen the mining-related learning and research support system. |
Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME, Denver) and the Canadian Institute for Mining and Metallurgy (CIM, Montreal) |
| 10. MMSD – North America Follow-up: Facilitate and Track MMSD – North America follow-up. |
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Winnipeg |
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