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Hans De Keulenaer

Miners Begin Cleaning Up Their Act With Renewables | BloombergNEF - 1 views

  • The mining industry faces an interesting paradox. It is the lynchpin of the transition to a low-carbon economy, providing the materials that go into new grids and electric vehicles, yet miners’ extraction processes gorge on large amounts of power. Miners account for 6% of the world’s energy demand, and meet most of it with fossil fuels.
  • Miners, which account for 22% of global industrial emissions, are facing more pressure to decarbonize than ever before – from investors, customers in the technology and auto industries, and even consumers further downstream.
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    Great benchmarks from climate-related disclosure.
Hans De Keulenaer

Sustainable by 2045: Three ways the mining industry can make it happen - Intergovernmen... - 2 views

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    3 challenges for sustainable mining: * innovation (which will help much on the environmental and economic challenges) * deep community engagement * breaking down sector silos Interestingly, two of the three challenges in this listing are social.
Colin Bennett

How everyone decided trees will save the planet - and why they won't - 2 views

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    Offsets will not suffice - they only work as part of the mix if everyone goes carbon or climate neutral. Some reports estimate the potential at around 10 billion tons per year, i.e. they are about 25-30% of the solution. The question of course remains 'against which baseline'?
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