Sector Standard for Mining
A Standard for a responsible mining sector
The importance of this Standard
GRI 14: Mining Sector 2024 addresses the pressing need for consistent, granular, and complete reporting on the sector’s wide-ranging impacts and contributions to sustainable development. The Standard sheds light on the dual nature of the mining sector – providing essential minerals and metals that society relies on, while having significant impacts on the environment, communities, and workers.
GRI 14: Mining Sector 2024 is now available for download and enters into effect for reporting on 1 January 2026, with early adoption encouraged. The new GRI Standard reflects broad stakeholder expectations for transparency and enables any mining company to use a common set of metrics to report their impacts.
The Standard is used together with the GRI Universal Standards and the GRI Topic Standards. See this Implementation Guide for more information and practical examples on how to use the Sector Standard for determining material topics and deciding disclosures.
Alignment with GRI Climate Change and Energy Standards
When existing GRI Topic Standards are revised, or new ones developed, Sector Standards need to be assessed against the new or revised disclosures and aligned accordingly. See here for more information on the project.
Following the approval of the GRI 102: Climate Change 2025 and GRI 103: Energy 2025 Topic Standards, GRI 14 is undergoing an alignment process to ensure that the Sector Standard is in line with best practice expectations for reporting on climate change and energy.
The exposure draft containing the aligned topics is now open for public comment. We invite your feedback on the relevance and applicability of the proposed disclosures by 13 July 2025. You can access the exposure draft here.
Please use this questionnaire to leave your feedback or send it directly to [email protected].
For more information about the alignment, consult this FAQ document.
Basis for conclusions
The public comment period for the exposure draft of the Standard ran from 7 February to 30 April 2023.
The Basis for Conclusions for GRI 14: Mining Sector 2024 provides a summary of the significant issues raised during public consultation. A complete record of the received comments can be found here. The Basis for Conclusions also provides a summary of how the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) responded to the significant issues raised.
About this project
The development of this Standard was prioritized based on the sector’s widely documented impacts across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. The GSSB appointed an expert multi-stakeholder Working Group to develop the contents of the Standard. In addition, an expert group of peer reviewers were engaged throughout the process.
Learn more about the need for more transparency about the impacts of mining and a presentation of the Standard’s contents in the following webinar recordings:
- Launch webinar for GRI 14 with keynote speeches from the GSSB and the International Energy Agency (IEA)
The project followed the GSSB’s Due Process Protocol, the implementation of which is overseen by the GRI Due Process Oversight Committee. Learn more about the GRI Sector Program here.
For key documents, FAQs, resources and more, see the list at the bottom of this page.
Project Overview
Q4 2021
Formation of Working Group & Project commencement
Q1 - Q4 2022
Development of exposure draft
Q1 - Q2 2023
Public comment period
Q2 - Q4 2023
Consideration of public comment feedback and revision
Q1 2024
Release of the Standard
Related resources
| GRI Sector Standard Project for Mining FAQs | file | 07 Feb 2023 | English | 286 KB | |
| GRI 14 leaflet | file | 05 Feb 2024 | English | 6 MB | |
| GRI 14 infographic | file | 05 Feb 2024 | English | 5.3 MB | |
| GRI 14: Mining WG bios | file | 01 Feb 2024 | English | 776 KB | |
| GRI Sector Standard Project for Mining – GSSB Basis for Conclusions for GRI 14: Mining Sector 2024 | file | 02 Feb 2024 | English | 381 KB | |
| GRI Sector Standards project for Mining public comment feedback | file | 06 Jun 2023 | English | 267 KB | |
| GRI Sector Program Mining exposure draft | file | 03 Feb 2023 | English | 2.3 MB | |
| GRI Sector Standards Project for Mining – Project proposal | file | 25 Aug 2021 | English | 184 KB | |
| A Short Introduction to the GRI Standards | file | 04 Oct 2021 | English | 369 KB | |
| GRI Sector Program Description | file | 07 Feb 2019 | English | 449 KB | |
| GRI Sector Standards Project for Mining – Working group terms of reference | file | 25 Aug 2021 | All | 194 KB | |
| GSSB Terms of Reference | file | 18 Oct 2018 | English | 108 KB | |
| GSSB Due Process | 09 Sep 2020 | ||||
| GSSB Work Program 2023-2025 | file | 03 Jun 2025 | English | 372 KB |
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