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Wheaton Precious Metals Recognized by Corporate Knights as one of the 2025 Global 100?Most Sustainable Corporations
Wheaton Precious Metals Recognized by Corporate Knights as one of the 2025 Global 100 Most...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n Wheaton Precious Metals Recognized by Corporate Knights as one of the 2025 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations\n \n\n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Canada NewsWire\n \n\n\n\n\n\n VANCOUVER, BC\n \n\n ,\n \n\n Jan. 22, 2025\n \n\n /CNW/ - Wheaton Precious Metals™ Corp. (\"Wheaton\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has today been named to Corporate Knights' 2025 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations list.\n \n\n With Corporate Knights' stated focus on responsible behaviour and sustainable revenue generation, a significant component of determining the Global 100 score considers the impact of Wheaton's streaming business on the clean economy and the responsible business practices of Wheaton's mining partners. Corporate Knights rated Wheaton highly for a range of key performance indicators at the corporate level, including pay linked to sustainability, CEO-average worker pay and gender and ethnic diversity on the board of directors.\n \n\n \"We are proud to be recognized for our commitment to excellence in ESG practices both in our own offices and alongside our mining partners, who have a strong track record in responsible mining,\" said\n \n Randy Smallwood\n \n , President and Chief Executive Officer of Wheaton. \"We have an incredible team at Wheaton and are advancing our work with mining partners to deliver the commodities our society needs. Although we do not manage mining operations, ESG is an important factor in our due diligence process for new streaming opportunities and once a stream is in place, we collaborate with our mining partners on a number of sustainability-related initiatives.\"\n \n\n \"As the leading precious metals streaming company, Wheaton is committed to financially supporting climate solutions and clean technology for mining operations,\" continued Smallwood. In\n \n September 2024\n \n , Wheaton announced the launch of its inaugural\n \n Future of Mining Challenge\n \n , an initiative that seeks to support the mining industry to become more efficient while minimizing its env...