Mining ESG Insights:
Achieve Zero Harm +
Zero Carbon.

Industry 4.0 technology enables miners to get the real-time ESG metrics you need + all-new abilities to improve them from anywhere.

At all stages of the mining lifecycle and across the entire value chain the environment and community are affected and impacted in multiple, evolving ways.

Regulatory limits, industry standards and judicial intervention has shaped miners’ environmental approach over the last century, but adhering to these rules is expensive and we're reaching a point where compliance and old approaches are no longer sufficient - miners and the businesses that serve them need to do more with the goal now set at zero: zero harm, zero carbon, zero waste.

This isn't news. In numerous reports of global mining executives in recent years, Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues comes out as the major challenge facing the sector - above capital access, uncertain demand, workforce, productivity and digital/innovation. Why?

There are many answers to this. Outside of medium-to-long-term zero carbon arrangements (such as the Paris Agreement, COP26 and government targets), the societal and political zeitgeist has evolved to a point where, although the sector’s role in achieving energy transition is undeniable, it needs to do and be seen to do more. Simply put: poor ESG performance adds risk.

What's more, the consequences of missteps have grown significantly at both a corporate and individual executive level (see Rio Tinto’s experience at Juukan Gorge or Vale’s at Córrego do Feijão). Miners’ ability to expand or open new sites are now subject to stricter LTO and capital requirements that factor in short, medium and long-term ESG risks: the sustainability of the sector and success of the people that work within it are now even more directly tied to the environment and the community that surrounds their operations.

Industry 4.0 technology will play a significant and ever-growing role in enabling miners to seize new benefits; achieve their zero carbon, zero harm and zero waste goals by predicting and mitigating problems to prevent harm from occurring; and allow the mining sector to be the responsible environmental custodians (and prove it) that they need to become in the evermore environmentally-conscious future that awaits us.

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