The London Metal Exchange has registered the first sustainability disclosures on its new digital credentials register, LMEpassport, it announced on Tuesday October 12.
LMEpassport is a platform register that enables a voluntary market-wide sustainable metals labelling program.
Metals producers Anglo American Platinum, Antofagasta plc, Boliden, Companhia Brasileira de Alumnio (CBA), Freeport-McMoran, Rusal, Teck Resources, Thailand Smelting & Refining and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt all listed sustainability disclosures.
"Nine producers have listed disclosures under the LME's sustainability taxonomy, which covers environmental, social and governance spheres designed to ensure that all aspects of the sustainability world - and crucially, the ways in which LME-listed brands have moved to address them - can be reflected," the LME said in the announcement.
The LME has approved a limited set of possible disclosures, it said,...