The 18th edition of the Forum will convene governments, industry leaders, international organisations, civil society, and trade unions to address pressing policy challenges related to critical minerals and to advance transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.
High-level opening Panel and Roundtable: Securing Resilient Value Chains for Sustainable Growth and Development
Monday, 5 May 2025 – 10:00-11:30 local time
Location: OECD, Paris, France – PLENARY ROOM CC1
ICMM’s Co-COO Aidan Davy will discuss how governments engage with mineral-producing countries to enhance domestic processing, create economic opportunities, and ensure long-term supply security. Discussions will highlight strategies to attract investment, address corruption and security risks, and implement policies that promote transparency, industrial development, and growth.
Panel Session Leveraging mining for renewable power in developing countries
Monday, 6 May 2025 – 17:10-18:05 local time
Location: OCED, Paris, France – Room CC12
Growing demand for critical minerals and declining ore grades will make mining more energy intensive. Automation, electrification, and digitisation of the mining industry are adding pressure on energy demand, while reducing or at best reshaping opportunities for local employment and procurement.
ICMM’s Policy & Public Affairs Lead John Lindberg will discuss how mining can be leveraged to turn a persistent challenge into an opportunity for creating shared value across governments, industry, and local communities.
Participants will share experience and lessons learned from concrete case studies and discuss critical enablers to encourage renewable energy integration into mining operations and the electrification of surrounding communities, including energy sector reforms, regulatory and contractual requirements, business models and de-risking instruments to attract investments. The session will also provide the opportunity to discuss how the shift of the mining industry to low-carbon energy presents an opportunity for resource-rich developing economies to foster the synergistic development of higher value-added activities in the renewable energy sector to advance diversification objectives and avoid the commodity trap.
ERM CSV & TDI Sustainability Session: From challenges to solutions: Exploring collaborative ways for improved consistency, quality and consolidation in due diligence auditing
Tuesday, 6 May 2025 – 09:00-10:30 local time
Location: OECD, Paris, France – Auditorium room
Thousands of due diligence audits for minerals and metals responsible sourcing are conducted globally by different auditors against multiple due diligence frameworks and standards.
The Copper Mark’s Chief Operating Officer, Hillary Amster will join due diligence auditing companies, upstream suppliers and downstream customers, and sustainability scheme representatives to explore current practices in due diligence monitoring and auditing and discuss strategies for overcoming common challenges to build capacity, ensure competence and integrity in due diligence auditing, avoiding tick-box approaches and bottlenecks in the process.
The session will also look at how to promote coherence and collaboration in the era of proliferation of due diligence and ESG standards and will provide an opportunity to discuss the simplification of standards notably through the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative.