EITI at the OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains 2025
Summary of the EITI's engagements at the OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains
Dates: 5-7 May
Location: OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Registration: Register here
The 2025 edition of the OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains will address critical challenges in mineral supply chains. Sessions will explore connecting emerging economies with mineral value chains, strengthening sector resilience, and enhancing supply chain transparency and traceability. Key topics include the role of commodity traders in due diligence, coherence between ESG initiatives, environmental due diligence and artisanal mining initiatives that drive formalisation.
EITI engagements
Day 1
Day 2
International commodity traders play a pivotal role in mineral supply chains. As intermediaries, traders connect multiple actors across geographically dispersed parts of the chain, blending and handling minerals from diverse origins to meet client requirements for location, mineral grade, and timing. This can lead to due diligence challenges related to spot market purchases, reliance on short-term contracts, and the need to manage commercially sensitive information.
This session will explore practical examples of these due diligence challenges and explore emerging and prospective solutions for responsible sourcing and enhanced transparency.
This session will be livestreamed. Interpretation will be available in English, French, Spanish and Chinese.
Day 3
In September 2024, a UN-mandated panel issued guiding principles on critical energy transition minerals. UNCTAD, UNIDO, and UNECE are leading the implementation of actionable recommendation 2 (AR2), which calls for a “global traceability, transparency and accountability framework along the entire mineral value chain”. This partner session aims to generate concrete input on how to support integrity and anti-corruption efforts as part of follow-up on AR2 and ensure alignment with existing initiatives such as the OECD Due Diligence Guidance and EITI Standard.
This dialogue will invite representatives from international organisations, governments, civil society and the private sector to explore practical pathways, drawing on assessments by the Basel Institute on Governance in Bolivia, Indonesia and Ukraine, EITI due diligence tools on governance and corruption risks, and UNICRI’s report on crimes related to critical minerals in Southeast Asia.
The session will be available in English only.
For more information, visit the OECD website.
