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| Stakeholder engagement is undertaken at all mining operations as part of the impact assessment process and through ISO 14001. Key issues of concern include landscape rehabilitation, biodiversity stewardship and conservation, seal population management in Namibia and energy use and climate change. Individual business units and mines regularly conduct additional engagements to understand local stakeholder concerns:
- In 2005, De Beers Marine Namibia completed an extensive exercise with key stakeholders, including the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Namibian Rock Lobster Association. The engagement sought to identify stakeholder concerns about the environmental impacts of marine mining.
- Williamson conducts environmental training and awareness programmes with local schools and communities. This includes capacity building initiatives with small-scale informal diamond miners.
- Our Snap Lake Working Group in Canada is comprised of licensing and government agencies and local First Nations groups. The working group meets monthly to review impact assessment findings and proposed environmental management plans.
- In September 2005, De Beers Marine Namibia's Environmental Section hosted a Scientific Workshop in Windhoek on the environmental impact of dredging. We also support education and research undertaken by the University of Cape Town, University of Namibia, University of Oxford, the Two Oceans Aquarium and others.
The implementation of our environmental performance reporting application will provide a shared ability to register stakeholder concerns and compare them against actions and performance taken at individual operations. This will build further accountability for environmental issues with line managers and enhance communication with stakeholders.
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