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Endeavour Silver Releases its 2022 Sustainability Report; Reports on First Year of its Three Year Strategy
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Endeavour Silver Corp. (“Endeavour” or the “Company”) (TSX: EDR, NYSE: EXK published its 2022 Sust
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Endeavour Silver Corp. (“Endeavour” or the “Company”) (TSX: EDR, NYSE: EXK published its 2022 Sustainability Report, describing the Company’s progress in executing the first year of its 2022-2024 Sustainability Strategy. A highlights video accompanies the report, featuring CEO, Dan Dickson, and CFO, Christine West, discussing the past year’s efforts and milestones. Dan Dickson, CEO of Endeavour Silver, stated: “In 2022, we rolled up our sleeves to execute Year One of our new Sustainability Strategy. I’m pleased with how our team transformed Endeavour Silver’s commitments into real-life action, ‘walking the talk’ by continuing to embed ESG practices into our operations and driving positive impacts across the three pillars of our Sustainability Strategy - people, planet and business.” 2022 Performance Highlights (All dollar amounts presented below are in U.S. dollars.)People Achieved 0.87 reportable injury rate, a 28% decline from the prior year and continuing a four-year downward trend Improved our onboarding process to set up new hires for success, providing an average of 30 training hours for every employee and contractor Increased our community investments to $433,167, supporting local needs such as education, economic development, public health and infrastructure Marked the sixth anniversary of our Scholarship Program, with 155 scholarships awarded last year to enhance access to education for local students Awarded the ‘Socially Responsible Company’ distinction by the Mexican Center for Philanthropy Planet Performed climate scenario analysis to assess potential climate-related risks and impacts, and prepared our first climate report aligned to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework, entitled “Our Climate Journey” Recycled over 90% of water used in our operations, minimizing our use of fresh water Diverted 78% of our overall waste from landfills Planted 61,905 trees through our reforestation program to restore land disturbed by mining activity Business 100% of our employees completed training on our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Set a target of achieving at least 30% representation of women on the Board by the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of shareholders Strengthened our commitment to human rights by launching a Human Rights...