“Our goal is to ensure that copper is responsibly produced so that consumers and customers can be confident that the copper used in their product was created responsibly and also to make sure that investors are able to continue investing in copper as a sustainable investment opportunity” Michèle Brülhart, The Copper Mark executive director
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into independent reviews
Our participants have to be
and requires on-site audits
fully conformant with all
from independent third
requirements within two
parties for every participating
years of signing up to join The
site. Overall, this is a way
Copper Mark. We regularly
for companies to look at
check in with them and make
the criteria and see if they
sure there is progress in areas
can match that with their
where they need to improve
operations. How do they
on. Again, the improvements
perform against those criteria,
they have made need to be
where are potential gaps?
independently audited and
Getting independent third
validated at the end of the day.
party opinion through the
All of that is the core system
audit itself then allows them to
we operate to try and make
identify areas of improvement.
sure companies move along. But a lot of the work we do is
