The phrase "extractive sector" refers to industries that involve extracting or mining natural resources from the earth. This can include sectors such as mining, oil and gas extraction, forestry, and fishing. Full definition
Current extractives sector business models are based on assumptions that there are no limits to emissions. (carbontracker.org)
Her specific expertise is in the materials, technology and extractives sectors and on issues relating to human rights, corporate governance and water. (proxypreview.org)
They do this first by depicting finance and rent - seeking privilege as part of the economy's real wealth - creating process rather than as an extractive sector, and second, by, pretending that the financial problem is only a temporary liquidity problem, not a structural problem debt of debts that can't be paid — unless the government makes up the gap at the non-financial sector's expense. (michael-hudson.com)