**6. A shared values approach to solutions**

Given limitations on Guinea's capacity to enforce its regulatory requirements and to create transparency around the environmental impact assessments required by law, it was prudent to look to other, less conventional pathways to help prioritize mining and refining processes that will decrease the magnitude of environmental


• Use land-use offsets to drive toward

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• Create topsoil from vegetation and

• Reduce runoff by contouring land surface

• Underwrite local biodiversity conservation

• Reduce closure/restoration cost by 40%

• Host annual intersectoral forum with an international education foundation to include 60 civil society organizations and

• Use itinerant dialogue process to bring company reps into communities for regular

• Involve local NGOs as third-party observers in community-related actions • Use open-house initiative to provide scheduled facility tours for local residents

• Offer access to monitor local water quality during extreme weather events and support local, recovery efforts and services

*Case study no. 2*: Community Engagement for Bauxite Mining

• Reduce long-term liability from biodiversity loss beyond fence line • Bolster reputation by spending restoration expenses locally • Help achieve strategic goal of footprint-neutral mining

**Objective**: Improve transparency and stakeholder dialog to reduce social unrest **Solution**: Dialog and support for local communities around bauxite mine, Brazil

• Hire locals to collect and plant seeds for

*Sustainably Growing Guinea's Bauxite-Aluminum Industry*

• ICMM 6, 7, 9 (10, reporting) • ASI Principle 8 biodiversity, 9.7 local

• Area population: 35,000 • High population growth • Very high poverty rate

**Standards/regulatory drivers**:

Impacts • ICMM 1, 4, 10

**Location**: Brazil

• IFC 4: Community, IFC 7: Indigenous Peoples, IFC 1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and

• ASI Principle 9.7 local communities, 3.4 stakeholder complaints, grievances, and

• Three small communities within an area

with population of 88,000 • Subject to flooding, deforestation • Low employment, high poverty

requests for information

• BBOP principles and mitigation hierarchy

communities

**Location**: Brazil

footprint-neutral goal

indigenous vegetation • Leverage natural processes to build microenvironments that reduce landscape

• Create wildlife shelters

fragmentation

rainwater

program

**Benefits/business value**:

**Methods/technical approach**:

local authorities

meetings

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