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<p>The Department for Business & Trade's (DBT) Responsible Mining Team in Brazil
have promoted best practice on tailings dams since 2016. They led a mission to the
UK in November to build on work to implement the Global Industrial Standard on Tailings
Management (GISTM) and have organised roundtables in partnership with United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote the GISTM in Brazil. UK Ministers for the
Americas and Europe have highlighted work to improve safety measures around tailings
dam management, including in October in a meeting with the law firm representing victims
of the Mariana Dam incident and at a Westminster Hall Debate in June.</p>
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