2019 witnessed the devastating failure of Brazil’s Brumadinho’s tailing dam which took 250 people’s lives.
Just two days after the tragic event, a group of investors co-led by the Church of England Pensions Board and the United Nations Environment Program announced the Investor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative, and called upon 727 extractive mining companies to make disclosures about their tailings storage facilities to form an independent global database.