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Digging for Climate Change: Partnership with Mining Journal

Addressing challenges facing the mining and water resources industries today, this dedicated page shares climate change-related content produced by our global consultants.

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Climate Impact Imperatives Resilience and Decarbonisation

Andrew van Zyl, Philippa Burmeister - April 2023

Publication - Article

Resilience and decarbonisation are two sides of the same coin for companies as they evolve their strategies toward climate change, according to partner and principal scientist Philippa Burmeister.

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Tailings Dams and Climate Change

Justin Walls - August 2023

Publication - Article

As the global mining industry works towards meeting stringent new tailings dam standards, a recent presentation to SAICE's Environmental Engineering Division (SEED) highlighted some of the less predictable factors in planning these engineered landforms for the long term.

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Climate Change: A Cloud of Uncertainty Over Mining

Andrew van Zyl, Peter Shepherd - January 2021

Publication - Article

A key impact of climate change on mining is the new level of uncertainty that it brings to an already risk-laden sector - especially in terms of water management. The risks of climate change do not disappear when a mine closes.

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Using R and Data Science to Analyse Site-specific Climate Change

Desana Štambuk, in collaboration with the Mining Journal - July 2022

Publication - Article

This thought leadership piece, in collaboration with the Mining Journal, examines the use of multiple climatic models with a purpose-built script to estimate the expected change of different climatic parameters for a specific mine location on the globe.

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How Climate Change Affects Mining

February 2020

Publication - Article

As a result of the climatic conditions, mines are seeing impacts on the stability and effectiveness of their infrastructure and equipment, as well as on their environmental protection and site closure practices.

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Managing Disaster in an Age of Climate Change

Andries Fourie - November 2019

Publication - Article

South Africa’s towns and cities could be rendered more resilient to natural disasters if municipalities understand the likely impacts of climate change and build these impacts into their disaster management strategies for the future.

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Simulating the Uncertainty of Climate Change in Water Balance Models

 Event - Seattle, Washington

This presentation explores key assumptions in climate change predictions, discusses SRK's use of multiple Global Climate Models to quantify uncertainty, and demonstrates how they incorporate these uncertainties into stochastic simulations using a modified WGEN synthetic climate generator.

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Podcast: Water at Centre of Future Risk

 Video - Interview

Models are helping us identify and manage climate hazards

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Podcast: Investors Driving Climate Response

 Video - Interview

Adaptation and mainstreaming strategies should vary by geography and site

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