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• SDG 1 – End Poverty: Mining generates significant revenues through taxes,
royalties and dividends for governments to invest in economic and social
development.
• SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation and SDG15 – Life on Land: Mine
development requires access to land and water presenting significant and
broad landscape impacts that must be responsibly managed.
• SDG 7 - Energy Access and Sustainability and SDG13 – Climate Action:
Mining activities are energy and emissions intensive in both the production
and downstream uses of its products.
• From Mapping Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals: A Preliminary Atlas (Jan 2016) – UNDP, Columbia Centre on Sustainable Investment (Law School & Earth Institute),
WEF, Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

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• SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth: Mining can change the
lives of local communities, offering opportunities for jobs & training,
and also contributes to economic and social inequities if not
appropriately managed.
• SDG 9 - Infrastructure, Innovation, and Industrialization: Mining can
help drive economic development and diversification through direct
and indirect economic benefits, the development of new technologies
and by spurring the construction of new infrastructure for transport,
communications, water and energy.

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• SDG 10 – Reduced inequalities – Within and among countries: Economic
inequality creates social inequality, sometimes leading to social unrest.
• SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions: Mining can contribute to
peaceful societies by avoiding & remedying company-community conflict,
respecting human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples, and by
supporting the representative decision-making of citizens and communities
in extractives development.
• SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals: Nobody can do it alone. Sustainable
development requires a realignment and reorientation of core business.

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