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Global Land Risks and Opportunities in Corporate Supply Chains
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Land-related risks are vastly underappreciated by corporate and environmental attorneys representing clients around the globe. This article seeks to raise the profile of land issues so that attorneys can better advise clients who might unwittingly trip into significant legal, financial, and operational peril by not fully appreciating how land risks lurk in supply chains and operations.
These risks were made apparent recently when the CEO and other top leaders of Rio Tinto, the global mining company, were sacked by Rio Tinto’s board of directors for failing to give credence to Aboriginal land claims to the ancient Juukan cave complex in Western Australia before destroying the caves. No one argues that the company’s actions were illegal: they appear to have been in keeping with Australian law. But they were tone deaf to the developing global norms around land rights, which require compliance