Scalar Politics and Transnational Governance Innovations: A Political Settlements Lens on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in the Andes

The hybrid global gold regime: a perspective from the Peruvian ASGM sector

“…Sev eral international conventions and national laws have been enacted in order to render global supply chains more transparent and less damaging (amongst them the US Dodd-Frank Act, the Palermo Convention, the Minamata Convention etc.). With regard to mining, a series of transna tional networks have formed that promote transparency in supply chains, with some focusing on private corporations and others concentrating on political actors (Bebbington et al 2016). They are led by international organisations (as in the case of the Global Reporting Initiative (founded in 1997), the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement (2003) and the UN's Global Compact (founded in 2000)), non-governmental organisations (for instance in case of the Publish What You Pay campaign and the Global Al liance for Tax Justice) and industry groups (in the case of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM, founded in 2001)).…”