Environment

An energized futureTo combat climate change and to assuage investors, mining and exploration companies are making strides to deploy alternatives to traditional fossil fuels to power their operations

To combat climate change and to assuage investors, mining and exploration companies are making strides to deploy alternatives to traditional fossil fuels to power their operations

By Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco and Amanda Graff

February 08, 2022

The first three-megawatt wind turbine was installed at the Raglan nickel mine in 2014. Glencore and Tugliq added a second in 2018. Courtesy of Tugliq

In 2015, a few weeks before the COP21 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, began, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), whose members represent the world’s leading companies in the mining and metals industry, issued a short statement on its position on climate change that called for a “measured transition” to reduce global emissions with a greater use of renewable energy and other cost-effective low-emissions technologies as well as improved energy efficiency.

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