Meetings and Conferences
Making Green Economies Sustainable Economies
October 2011. Elizabeth Bastida & Kristi Disney in Berlin
Kristi Disney and Elizabeth Bastida attended “Towards a Fair Future of Using Natural Resources for Sustainable Development,” an October 17, 2011 gathering in Berlin, Germany, hosted by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. The conference, attended by natural resources and sustainable development experts from the U.S., Germany, and beyond, focused on sustainable resource management for green economies. Participants discussed potential regulatory approaches that would help meet the increasing demand for minerals such as platinum, gallium, copper, and phosphorus that are currently required in green technologies, without shifting the environmental burden to source countries. Participants reviewed a discussion paper for this conference that will be finalized for presentation in early 2012, leading up to the Rio 2012 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Alberto Hurtado University
Mr. Danielson spoke about Chile’s potential contribution to the OECD at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago, Chile in October, 2011. See his presentation CHILE and the OECD presentation.
Brazilian Mining Institute
Luke Danielson presented at the Brazilian Mining Institute (Ibram) at its biannual Convention in Belo Horizonte on September 29, 2011. See his presentation IBRAM Brazil presentation.
United Nations Climate Change Conference-Cancún, México
Cecilia Dalupan participated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Her short article about the conference can be found here http://enrlgp.blogspot.com/2010/12/change-of-climate-in-cancun-adjunct.html
SDSG President Luke Danielson at the Peace Palace at the Hague
Conference on Prosecution of Pillage of Natural Resources – The Hague
SDSG developed a position paper Pillage of Natural Resources on the question of consent as a defence to war crimes prosecutions for pillage and looting of natural resources which Mr. Danielson presented at the Hague. http://www.pillageconference.org/schedule/
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Kathryn McPhail of ICMM, Karin Lissakers of Revenue Watch Institute, Luke Danielson of SDSG, H.E. Nahas Angula, Prime Minister of Namibia, Motozo Aizawa of IFC, Karl P. Sauvant and Jeffery D. Sachs of Columbia University
Columbia University – Vale Center on Sustainable International Investment
Mr. Danielson will discuss specific next steps toward the implementation of an integrated development approach for governments and companies at the Fifth Columbia International Investment Conference. http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/content/fifth-columbia-international-investment-conference-extractive-industries-and-sustainable-dev.
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National Academies of Science/National Research Council
On October 19, 2010, SDSG has been invited to address a public forum in Washington, D.C. on “Meeting our Nation’s Natural Resource Needs: Balancing Risks and Rewards.” The forum, convened by the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the National Research Council of the National Academies, will address the nation’s current and future needs for domestically derived fuel and non-fuel mineral resources and challenges to balancing social and environmental concerns with the need for energy and minerals. Jim Cress, a member of SDSG’s Board of Directors, will make SDSG’s presentation on “Future Availibility of Minerals – Sustainable Development & the Research Agenda.”
Developing Country Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Cecilia Dalupan guest lectured at the International Petroleum Class of Steve Bain and Carol Harmon at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law on October 13, 2010. She spoke on Developing Country Perspectives on Sustainable Development and International Climate Change Negotiations.
Reinventing Governance
Cecilia Dalupan was a Discussion Leader for the session “Promoting Transparency, Accountability, and Governance Structures and Practices Worth of the Public’s Trust” at the Confererence on Reinventing Governance on October 9, 2010. This conference was organized by the Center for the Study of Conflict, Collaboration, and Creative Governance (3CG), University of Colorado in Boulder. SDSG will be pursuing further areas of collaboration with 3CG in the near future.
Kristi Disney, Peter Leon, and Luke Danielson at Kazakhstan Meeting 2010
Kazakhstan – Transparency in Management of Resource Revenues
Mr. Danielson made a lead presentation on the links between the Model Mining Development Agreement, EITI and the movement for greater transparency in the management of resource revenues in a conference sponsored by Soros Foundation – Kazakhstan and Revenue Watch.
Mining sector company relations with indigenous communities: Where to go from here?
Mr. Danielson participated in a workshop hosted by the Segal Graduate School of Business at Simon Fraser University and the University of Guelph on May 11‐12, 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia. This small, invitation only workshop brought together experienced practitioners, members of First Nations and academics to identify and contemplate some of the difficult questions that continue to test company‐ indigenous community relations in the mining sector.
Mine Closure, Financial Assurance, And Final Reclamation
Mr. Danielson presented a paper on “Integrated Mine Closure Planning in the Framework of Sustainable Development” at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute, Westminster, Colorado, on November 5-6, 2009.