Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his first major climate change speech this year, will reach out on Monday to businesses, indigenous groups and citizens for help in defining his ambitious plan to cut carbon emissions, a senior government offi…
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Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) will spend $1 billion over the next five years to reduce its carbon footprint and have net zero greenhouse…
Rio Tinto to spend US$1B to reach zero emissions Read More »
VANCOUVER – Teck Resources has announced that it aims to be carbon neutral across all its operations by 2050. The miner, a major producer of base metals and metallurgical coal that also has oilsands assets, says its goal demonstrates its commitmentR…
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A new report by global consultancy McKinsey & Co. looks at three key questions the mining sector needs to address in light of climate change. Entitled Climate risk and decarbonization: What every mining CEO needs to know, the report details…
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In December, Time named Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg its person of the year—the youngest individual ever awarded the accolade in the magazine’s nearly 100…
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Precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater on Monday revealed that it was the only company from South Africa to have achieved an ‘A’ rating for its climate change disclosure by nonprofit global environmental disclosure platform CDP. "CDP’s annual env…
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German engineering giant Siemens will honor a controversial contract to supply signalling systems to Adani’s Carmichael coal mine in Australia, despite being under fire for…
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The world has refused to slash its collective greenhouse gas emissions, narrowing the planet’s pathway back to a safe climate. Authors of an annual United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report published Tuesday were uncharacteristically direct in t…
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The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) says that although the majority of South African corporate companies recognise climate change as an already occurring and imminently worsening risk, they are slow to mitigate and manage these risks, at least ac…
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In the context of efforts to have more sustainable and efficient operations and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses, Anglo American is implementing electromobility for the transport of its workers to and from work in Chile. Once fully implemented,…
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