Information on the Investor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative, including the Global Tailings Portal, the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, and the Global Tailings Management Institute.

NEWS / Nine months after the Brumadinho disaster in Brazil, investors from the Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative, met with mining companies and leading experts to review international progress on mining and tailing safety.

A year long global initiative is being launched to define an investor agenda to be achieved by 2030 for the mining sector.  

NEWS / Investors give mining companies 45 days for full disclosure on tailings storage facilities

On the 2nd anniversary of the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster, the Church of England Pensions Board, together with the Council of Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds leading a collaboration of investors committed to further interventions to drive change in the mining sector on tailings dams.

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Brumadinho Tailings dam disaster that resulted in the deaths of 270 people, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Church of England Pensions Board announced the formation of an independent Global Tailings Management Institute aimed at driving mining industry safety standards.

Four major announcements and Calls for Action have been made in London on the eve of the 1st anniversary of the disaster.

Summit of Mining CEOs & Mining Minsters to be convened in London in January 2023

Joint call issued by Church of England funds, Swedish Public Pension funds, Dutch funds APG and Robeco, New Zealand Super, UK’s LGPS Central and US fund BMO Global Asset Management; together with combined assets over £1 / $1.3 / €1.1 trillion

A memorial event at which families of those killed in the devastating Brumadinho disaster shared testimonies and prayers has catalysed investors to take further steps in recognition of the profound risks caused by tailings facilities.