Engaging with investors
In January 2020, Van Eck, which manages the International Investors Gold Fund, announced that it ‘would expect all of the gold producers in which we invest to adopt the RGMPs’.
Re-imaging gold as an ESG investment
In-depth: In a world where consumers of every age group are increasingly interested in the source of their products and the ethical standards by which they are produced, some may think gold doesn’t stack up as a responsible investment.
Gold Mining’s Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
This report looks at how World Gold Council Members are bringing about positive change across four thematic areas: global partnerships; social inclusion; economic development and responsible energy use and environmental stewardship.
Professional Pensions: UK pensions, ESG and building back better with gold
In the September edition of Professional Pensions, John Mulligan references the early signs emerging that institutional investors’ are embracing gold as a strategic asset and introduces why gold’s ESG credentials may propel this interest further
Video: Peter Sinclair on AMI Mining Coffee Chat
Peter Sinclair, Senior Advisor at the World Gold Council, joined John Price and Remi Piet, both of Americas Market Intelligence, for a mining coffee chat last week.
Webinar for assurance providers on the Responsible Gold Mining Principles
We recently hosted a webinar for assurance providers on the Responsible Gold Mining Principles. In this article, you can find and download resources from the event.
Gold-based COVID-19 testing – an update
The need for accurate, rapid and cost-effective gold-based testing tools is more acute now than has been at any other point throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as some countries begin to emerge from lockdown.
After the virus: learning lessons and building back better with gold
What lessons might we derive from the pandemic and our response to it in order to build back better? And, more specifically, how might these learnings be relevant to the most pressing challenge facing humanity - that of climate change? And, of course, what does this have to do with gold?
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