{"id":1152278,"date":"2019-11-28T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1007785"},"modified":"2019-11-28T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:15:28","slug":"environmental-watchdog-greenlights-metsos-emissions-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1152278","title":{"rendered":"Environmental watchdog greenlights Metso\u2019s emissions targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Science Based Targets initiative or SBTi, a collaboration between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute and the World Wide Fund for Nature, approved Metso\u2019s greenhouse gas emission targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Metso, its commitments involve a 25% reduction in carbon emissions in production by 2030, something the company plans to achieve by investing in renewable energy and improving the energy efficiency of the production processes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p> The SBTi champions science-based target setting as a way of boosting companies\u2019 competitive advantage in the transition to the low-carbon economy <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMetso demands sustainability not only of its own production but also 30% of its suppliers in terms of spend are required to set science-based emission targets by 2024. By streamlining transportation routes and optimizing warehouse locations, Metso aims for a 20% reduction in transportation emissions by 2025,\u201d the industrial machinery firm said in a media statement.<\/p>\n<p>Metso also reported that through extensive research and development work, it has been able to reduce the energy consumption in customer processes and it plans to continue on this path in order to achieve, in five years, a 10% reduction in GHG emissions in the most energy-intensive customer processes.<\/p>\n<p>More ambitiously, the Finnish company plans to offset flight emissions by 100% by 2021 and continue to find new ways to decrease emissions, for example, in offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely happy about the ratification of our science-based CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions targets,\u201d Metso\u2019s president and CEO, Pekka Vauramo, said in the press brief. \u201cOur Climate Program is an important step in our goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is also an essential element in Metso being a responsible and trusted partner to our customers. We aim to improve our customers\u2019 productivity in a sustainable manner, and we involve all our stakeholders in reaching this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other things, Metso aims for a 20% reduction in transportation emissions by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4,2857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152362,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152278\/revisions\/1152362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}