Our most-read blog posts of 2020 focused on the impatcs of the coronavirus pandemic on natural resource governance - from how governments in mineral-dependent countries can respond to the pandemic, to the link between fallig oil prices and increased corruption. Read them all here.

The oil and mining transparency rule adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will fail to achieve the level of payment disclosure necessary to deter corruption in the natural resource sector.

En medio de la agitación política en el Perú, las leyes sobre la gobernanza de los recursos naturales han sido puestas en peligro con el fin de atraer inversiones para la reactivación económica. El crecimiento en la inversión no debería producirse a costa del debilitamiento de la gobernanza.

 

On International Anti-Corruption Day, the EITI, NRGI and TI Accountable Mining are partnering to present new tools and guidance to combat extractive sector corruption.

 

Since 2019, significant progress has been made on making extractive sector contracts public. But it's too early to declare “mission accomplished.”

Amid political turmoil in Peru, laws around natural resource governance are being put in jeopardy in the name of attracting investment. However, growth in investment should come at the cost of weakened governance in the sector.

Covering Extractives is a new, free, online multimedia guide for journalists reporting on the oil, gas and mining sectors.

ResourceProjects.org contains data on more than $240 billion in oil, gas and mining payments to governments in 2019 alone. With a new data layout and updated company and country pages, users can quickly find out how much (or little) a company is paying in taxes, royalties, production entitlements and more.