The Finnish Network for Sustainable Mining

Sylvie Fraboulet-JussilaThe Finnish Innovation Fund – Sitra

Cobalt closing conference 23 March 2015

Mining in Finland

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Important Attractive Challenging

Multi-stakeholder

dialogue

Things had to change

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Opportunities

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Conflicts

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Sustainabilityleadership objective

The Finnish Network for Sustainable Mining

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Voluntary

DialogueCo-operationTrust

Collective awareness

Mutual benefits

Challenges

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Neutrality

Independence

Credibility

Representativity & Continuity

New energy and ideas

Key principles

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Listen Understand Respect Accept

Agree to disagree

ReindeerHerding

Sámi People Labour

Organizations

EnvironmentalNGOs

Mining

Value Chain

Finance

Forestry & Agriculture

TourismLocal

Authorities

Host

Chair Hannele Pokka

Members

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Staying motivated

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Motivation

Results

Multi-stakeholderWorking Groups

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Jointly defined reporting

Sustainability management standard

Toolbox for local stakeholder cooperation practices

Achievements

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Trust

Balanced & valuable dialogue bridging gaps

Foundations for permanent operations

Tools

Success factors

Neutrality Joint planning Slow Pace

Team Building Clear objectives and principles

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“The Finnish Network for Sustainable Mining promotes mutual

understanding and clarifies the concept of social acceptance.”

- Anne Ollila, Reindeer Herders’ Association

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“The Network for sustainable mining is the first and so far the only meeting point for ideas of its members in creating the future of mining industry.”

- Kalle Varis, Sámi Parliament

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“So far, the Network has enabled an important exchange of views between the key stakeholders that are directly affected by the mining industry. It has been a successful exercise as these discussions have led to new efforts to find common ground in mining activities.”

- Eero Yrjö-Koskinen, Finnish Association for Nature Conservation

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“The mining network is important as it brings together key stake-holders to discuss and address challenges in the Finnish mining industry. Through working together, stakeholders learn about and begin to understand each others points of view, and it brings us closer to being able to set rules that everyone can live with.”

- Joanna Kuntonen Van’t Riet, Anglo-American Exploration

Thank you!

Merci!

Kiitos!

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