How to make artisanal and small-scale mining forest-smart
Mining is the fourth driver of deforestation—accounting for 7% of tropical and sub-tropical forest loss. Through its Climate-Smart Mining initiative, the World Bank Group and PROFOR published in 2019 a series of reports identifying the impacts of artisanal and large-scale mining on deforestation worldwide and highlighting good and bad practices in forest-smart mining.
Louopou Lamah David Abiamofo World Bank Group Sustainable Development Climate Smart Mining Forest Smart Mining
Source: worldbank.org