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Sustainable Development Goals
SDG Pyramid
The first 10 goals align with people and social issues and represent the foundation that should be covered before the next five goals on ecological challenges and two final spiritual goals on peace and partnership can be achieved.
The European mineral raw materials industry contribution to the sustainable development pillars
The European mineral raw materials industry contributes to economic sustainability by:
- Staying financially strong in order to be an innovative and responsible sector and contributing to prosperity.
- Maintaining high return on equity.
- Having a healthy net debt/equity ratio.
- Consistently seeing results.
- Maintaining high ordinary dividends.
The European mineral raw materials industry contributes to social sustainability by:
- Maintaining secure and attractive workplaces and exert positive influences on our business partners and our immediate environment.
- Reducing accidents.
- Working to improve gender equality.
- Working to increase diversity.
The European mineral raw materials industry contributes to environmental sustainability by:
- Being resource-efficient and environmentally efficient.
- Reducing carbon emissions.
- Reducing energy intensity.
- Reducing discharges to water.
- Reducing emissions to air.
Source: http://www.euromines.org/what-we-do/sustainable-development-goals#
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