Why Global Investors Are Backing Canada's Indigenous Equity Model

Adam Matthews is the Chief Responsible Investment Officer at the Church of England Pensions Board. He plays a key role in how major institutional investors assess mining companies and evaluate Canada’s Indigenous equity partnership model as part of how they allocate capital.

He also chairs the Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030, a coalition of 125 institutional investors managing about $19 trillion in assets, working to define how responsible investment in mining is properly applied and to translate those standards into investment practice.

In this episode of Drumbeats, Adam Matthews explains how institutional investors are building and applying risk and governance frameworks that shape responsible investment in mining, and how those frameworks are increasingly used to assess Indigenous partnership structures in Canada. In this conversation, you'll learn:

• Why mining matters more to the global economy than what most investment portfolios show
• What the Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030 is doing to reshape standards for responsible mining
• The difference between real Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and simple box-ticking compliance, and how investors tell them apart
• How a new Investor Mining Performance Framework is being built to link Indigenous rights and mining standards to how investments are assessed
• Why Canada’s Indigenous equity partnership model is getting more attention from large global investors
• How global politics against ESG are affecting long-term investment strategies in the UK and Europe

This is why Canada’s Indigenous equity partnership model is gaining attention from global investors. It is being recognised as a practical benchmark for responsible mining, and is increasingly being built into the frameworks that shape how institutional capital evaluates mining projects.