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As the momentum toward a net-zero world increases and as wider public awareness of the risks associated with mining rises, the industry will undergo increased scrutiny for its known risk factors, inadequate proactive policies, reporting deficiencies, and failures to remediate damages. There will be increasing pressure from civil society and governments on mining companies and lending institutions to perform responsible due diligence into critical mineral sourcing and to hold the extractive economy to increasingly stringent environmental, social and governance standards. The damage and various forms of violence already part of a well-documented history of international mining ventures, unless vigorously checked on numerous fronts, is about to explode in a proliferation of new ventures on top of the existing 35,000 existing sites globally. The most common risks include:
