Natural resources minister says will address sustainable mining at COP15 conference | 24CA News
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says Canada is trying to decide to solely bringing important minerals into the nation in the event that they had been mined in a manner that’s each environmentally delicate and respectful of human rights.
Wilkinson shall be on the COP15 nature talks in Montreal Monday the place he’ll make an announcement on important minerals, simply three days after lastly publishing the Liberals’ long-promised important minerals technique.
The technique is concentrated solely on home mining, and Wilkinson acknowledges it’s silent on the sustainability of any uncooked supplies mined elsewhere and delivered to Canada for additional processing or used within the manufacturing of batteries.
But he says he could have extra to say about that subject in Montreal Monday.
Canada’s mining trade is acknowledged for sustainable practices domestically however internationally its popularity is much much less rosy, with a number of allegations of human rights abuses and environmental harm.
The COP15 nature talks are an effort by most international locations on this planet to comply with insurance policies that can each halt and restore the destruction that human actions, together with mining, have introduced on world ecosystems and wild species.
