Suits and Boots | The Sustainable Business Podcast
Insights and discussions on hot topics from the world of responsible sourcing from TDi Sustainability's expert analysts and specialist guests.
With suits in the boardroom and boots on the ground, TDi provides a 360-degree perspective on sustainability and long-term business resilience for businesses across the length and breadth of global mineral and metal value chains.
Episodes
33 episodes
Mining Indaba: At the Crossroads | Coal, Capital and Energy Equity in Africa
As global energy priorities shift, coal is re-entering the conversation in Africa - raising complex questions around investment, sustainability and energy equity. In this episode, we discuss whether renewed coal investment is real, what ‘clean ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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39:22
Mining Indaba: Beyond the Mine Site | Infrastructure, Corridors, and Regional Development
In this episode, we explore how large-scale mining projects can be designed as engines of economic development. Our speakers discuss mining infrastructure at a landscape-scale, the role of mineral corridors, infrastructure-led industrialisation...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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29:49
Mining Indaba: Communities, Co-ownership and Inclusion | Rethinking Inclusion in African Mining
Marie-Chantal Kaninda joined Glencore DRC six years ago as Executive Director and Head of Corporate Affairs. Since July 2022, she has chaired the Board of Directors of Kamoto Copper Company (KCC), and since January 2023, she has held the positi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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30:23
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Mining Indaba: Africa at a Crossroads I Resource Curse or Strategic Power?
Africa's current geopolitical landscape is shaping opportunities and risks for the continent. In this podcast, we explore how global competition, governance, and policy choices could influence Africa’s ability to capture long-term v...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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30:58
Mining Indaba: Community Voices | What Partnership Really Means for Mining Communities
This is the second of three Community Voices podcasts, as part of the Mining Indaba 2026 special podcast series. This episode explores the realities for local communities of mining’s expansion in the Hwange region of Zimbabwe. This ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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38:30
Mining Indaba: Community Voices I The Invisible Minerals Powering Africa’s Growth
This is the second of our three Community Voices podcasts, as part of the Mining Indaba 2026 special podcast series. In this episode, we speak to Dr Matondo Estrela Garcia Cardoso, one of the winners of this year’s Community Voices competition,...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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34:57
Mining Indaba: Community Voices | Rewriting Malawi’s Gemstone Story
This is the first of three Community Voices podcasts, as part of the Mining Indaba 2026 special podcast series. This podcast focusses on Yamikani Jimusole - a Malawian miner, gemologist, entrepreneur and visionary leader. Yamikani i...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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33:13
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Mining Indaba: Circularity and Regenerative Thinking | Transformative Force or Incremental Fix?
This podcast discusses a deceptively simple question: "Is circularity really part of the solution for meeting the demand for critical materials, or is it just one piece of a much bigger puzzle?"Silver bullet, or silver bucksh...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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30:06
Mining Indaba: The Capital Shift | Examining Mining’s Alternative Funding Sources
This podcast discusses the shifting sources of capital surrounding mining, considers ESG risk and responsibility in terms of mining finance and looks forward to discuss what financing innovations - whether structures, partnerships or instrument...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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24:23
Mining the Gap | Securing Resources for the High-Tech Economy
This episode discusses the crucial role of mining in supporting high-growth industries such as defence, electric vehicles (EVs), and artificial intelligence (AI). The speakers examine the essential mineral requirements for these industrie...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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38:41
Driving the Transition: The Critical Minerals Set to Shape the Next Decade
This episode explores how critical minerals are reshaping global supply chains. The discussion unpacks copper’s “critical” status, midstream bottlenecks, and the push for cleaner, more resilient production. From AI-driven exploratio...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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41:02
Rock Solid Returns | Financing the Future of Mining
This podcast covers the challenges of financing mining projects and accelerating development timelines by attracting capital. The speakers discuss navigating regulatory hurdles, and using innovative financing strategies to bring pro...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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39:42
Charging Ahead | Circular Policy Pathways for the Energy Transition
The conversation focuses on how to accelerate the clean energy transition from a policy perspective and promote a circular economy — with particular attention to key challenges and strategies.Speakers on this episode:James&nb...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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39:58
Critical Minerals at the Crossroads of Geopolitics
This episode explores how geopolitics is reshaping the landscape for critical minerals and the mining sector. The discussion highlights how export controls, tariffs, and investment policies are redefining access to key resources such as copper,...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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42:37
Mining the Future | Sustainability and Circularity beyond ESG
This episode goes beyond traditional ESG considerations to explore the evolving field of the circular economy and sustainability in mining. From recycling technologies to waste management solutions, mining companies are adopting circular econom...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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37:57
CMIF: Banking on Change - How Transition Finance is Redefining Mining
In this episode, we unpack what “transition finance” means in practice—moving beyond mere labels to the hard levers of industrial decarbonisation. The discussion dives into financing pathways for steel and mining: electrified and biofuel haul f...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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36:13
CMIF: Artisanal Mining in the New Minerals Era
The rush for critical minerals increasingly requires sourcing from artisanal and small-scale mining, raising concerns about potential human rights abuses, land degradation and conflict, yet at the same time offering potential opportunities for ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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36:41
Boots or Bots? Building the Mining Workforce of the Future
Across the globe, the mining sector is undergoing a transformation. Rapid technological change, automation, and digitisation are reshaping the very nature of mining work — creating new roles, requiring new skills, and shifting the dynamics of t...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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41:29
From Earth to Orbit | Exploring the Tech Transforming Mining
Technological innovations including advancements in AI, automation and data analytics are irreversibly changing the mining sector. In this special edition episode in advance of the Resourcing Tomorrow event in London this December, our speakers...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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47:35
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Free, Prior & Informed Consent in the context of the just energy transition
The global push for clean energy is essential for mitigating climate change. However, the rapid expansion of renewable energy projects and the increased demand for critical minerals to fuel them are increasingly impacting Indigenous lands, cult...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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43:17
The EU Omnibus Package | Why Sustainability Still Matters
In this episode, TDi's CEO Assheton Stewart Carter talks to international negotiator Peter Handley and TDi's Jeannette Greven about the omnibus package of regulatory amendments recently published by the EU Commission. The talking points include...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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33:40
The EU Conflict Minerals Regulation | Findings from the first review
Jeanette Greven, Senior Sustainability Consultant at TDi, joins Sarah Wilkinson, TDi's Marketing Manager to discuss TDi’s contribution to, and findings from, the first review of the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation (CMR), which was adopted in Se...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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14:08
Giving a voice to future generations | Mining Indaba Insights 2025
In this episode, TDi's CEO Assheton Carter, talks to two representatives from different parts of the mining industry, who will all be speaking at the 2025 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, on giving a voice to future generations, including specific e...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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49:24
Adopting Game-Changing Technology | Mining Indaba Insights 2025
In this episode, TDi's Responsible Mining Specialist, Elizabeth Arnott, talks to three representatives from different parts of the mining industry, who will all be speaking at the 2025 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, on adopting game-changing techn...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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39:41
Maximising on Africa’s critical mineral endowment | Mining Indaba Insights 2025
In this episode, TDi's CEO Assheton Stewart Carter talks to three representatives from different parts of the mining industry, who will all be speaking at the 2025 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, on maximising Africa's critical mineral endowment.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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43:07
