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Report urges public trust and community input to speed critical mining

The Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative argues that conflicts, legal challenges and regulatory disputes can be avoided when communities have a genuine role in decisions, and it proposes Adaptive Governance Partnerships for projects.

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Mining.com reports that a new report says faster development of critical minerals depends less on deregulation and more on building public trust through strong regulation and meaningful community participation.

According to the report from the Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative, establishing confidence in oversight and assurance on environmental and social concerns can help identify and resolve problems earlier, potentially reducing conflicts, legal challenges, and regulatory disputes that delay projects and raise costs.

The report highlights the importance of giving communities a meaningful voice in project development, including confidence that environmental impacts will be addressed, rather than focusing only on benefit sharing.

It also proposes creating an Adaptive Governance Partnership for each mining project to bring regulators, mining companies, and community representatives into decision making across the mine lifecycle, and suggests a real world test in places such as Australia or Canada if they are willing to experiment.

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