The Responsible Mining Foundation is hosting a web panel: Climate Change and Mining – beyond carbon footprint and risk to business in multiple time zones on November 10.
While primary extraction of certain raw materials remains necessary to support economic development, the achievement of Social Development Goals (SDGs), and industrial and consumer demand, this webinar focusses on the need for honest dialogue about how changes in climate exacerbate existing mining-related risks and impacts on the environment, local communities, and workers. And why responsible mining matters.
Beyond the direct carbon footprint of mine site activity (with the vast majority of direct greenhouse gas emissions being directly tied to energy consumption), mining is the first link in most global value chains.
Mined commodities are central to ‘green energy’. In the context of the Paris Climate Agreement, and the central role that mined commodities play in everyday life, it is important to consider fully the direct and indirect impacts and the externalised costs of mining activities now and for the future.
Moderated by Johannes van de Ven, Good Energies Foundation, speakers are:
Timer Manurung, Auriga (Indonesia)
John Howchin, Council on Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds (Sweden)
Mirna Cunningham, FILAC (Latin America and the Carribean)
Estelle Levin-Nally, Levin Sources (UK)
Carmen Hagenaars, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)
Hélène de Villiers-Piaget, Responsible Mining Foundation (Switzerland)
John Mulligan, World Gold Council (UK).
Registration is here.