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The social license to operate has become embedded in sustainability reports, in CEO speeches and has been embraced by civil society. The concept emerged in the early 2000s in the resource ...

Such a social, informal, and implied licence is now important no matter whether it is viewed from a glass-half-empty or a glass-half-full approach, according to Ms Cilento. The negative reasoning, for ...

Without social license to operate, businesses could experience operational and construction delays, litigation, and social conflict, which have financial and reputational risks for the companies. The ...

The topic was social license to operate, a phrase that has become increasingly familiar to those in the racing world, a few years removed from some of the most public crises surrounding racing ...

In Colorado today, many oil and gas facilities operate near people and communities. Attached to these industrial facilities are the very real social, legal and environmental conflicts that close ...

LeadingCompany recently spoke to Futureye’s communications director, Kate Joel, on some of the common misconceptions around social licence to operate, which she defined as the tacit consent of a ...

Just as the oil industry had to seek a ‘social licence to operate’, businesses dealing in data must make their practices socially acceptable too. Clearly, there has been urgent need for legislation ...

As the green hydrogen sector begins to take shape, the importance of early and meaningful community engagement is becoming ...