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By Hugo Melo

Opportunities to Reduce Risk by Mainstreaming Climate Change in Mining

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Climate change remains a critical risk to a wide variety of sectors. To address the concerns many international protocols and agreements have been established to manage climate change and set internationally binding emission reduction targets. The policies and targets are continually being reviewed in line with the latest technical input, but the intent remains to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change through adaptation.  

 

 

 

Philippa Burmeister

Principal Environmental Air Quality and Climate Change Scientist

Philippa has been involved in integrated environmental management for the past 19 years. Philippa partners with business to identify and execute innovative environmental governance solutions to strategic resource challenges. More recently she has specialised in Air Quality and Climate Change management focusing on how specifically air quality and climate change considerations can be integrated into business operations to make them more efficient, lower impacts and ensure the business is resilient to climatic changes.