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Digging for Climate Change: Partnership with Mining Journal

 

 

 

Digging for Climate Change: 5 Quick Questions

How is the mining sector mitigating climate change?

Gain insights on climate adaptation and mitigation within the mining industry in this Digging for Climate Change interview with Philippa Burmeister.

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Can Miners Achieve Net-Zero While Satisfying the Demands of the Global Economy?

Achieving net-zero by 2050 or sooner

Andrew van Zyl, Principal Mine Engineer (SRK South Africa), discusses the challenges involved with meeting net-zero ambitions while satisfying growing demand for raw materials during this Mining Journal panel discussion.

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Digging for Climate Change: Panel Discussion

How are climate change and related attitudes to business affecting mining? 

Watch Mining Journal's panel discussion with Chris Cann, Head of Mining Journal Research, Jonathan Dunn, Head of International Policy & UK Government Relations, Anglo American, Mark Wainwright, Head of Mining, Turner & Townsend, Chris O'Brien, Environmental Scientist (SRK UK), and John Mulligan, Market Relations and Climate Change Lead, World Gold Council

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Future Fleets Can Slash Emissions

Haulage is a key emitter of GHGs but chief protagonists will vary

Chris O'Brien, Environmental Scientist (SRK UK), talks through climate change mitigation versus adaption, the need for clarity among investors around emission scopes, accurately tracking emissions, the prospect of including emissions in development feasibility studies, and the foundations of reducing emissions.

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Water at Centre of Future Risk

Models are helping us identify and manage climate hazards

Samantha Barnes, a Senior Hydrological Engineer and Surface Water expert with SRK Canada discusses how climate models work, what their relevance is to the mining sector, and how climate change is expressing itself as a risk in the mining space. 

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Investors Driving Climate Response 

Adaption and mainstreaming strategies should vary by geography and site

Philippa Burmeister, Principal Environmental Scientist from SRK South Africa and Brian Luinstra, Principal Hydrogeologist from SRK Australia discusses what is meant by adaption and mainstreaming in a climate context, the need for disciplines to communicate effectively in preparing for climate change, and the differences in risks across sites and geographies. 

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These podcast interviews comprise a three part series by Mining Journal on Digging for Climate Change.  Chris Cann, Head of Mining Journal Research is the interviewer in each podcast. 

 

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Building Climate Resilience Begins With Understanding Risk 

By Philippa Burmeister, Samantha Barnes, and Lindsay Shand

This thought leadership piece identifies a risk-based approach to site-specific climate assessments to build resilience to climate change.

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

By Desana Štambuk

Examine 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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The Changing Climate of Climate Change Regulation 

By Chris O’Brien

To tackle a global problem, we must speak in the global language – money. This article discusses the results of taxing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to emission trading schemes (ETS) as proposed by The Paris Climate Agreement.

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Changing with the Climate - The Challenge of a Century

By Chris O'Brien, Victor Muñoz, Philippa Burmeister and Samantha Barnes

This co-authored article addresses critical risks and opportunities to the mining industry in developing a greener economy.

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Climate-Driven Impacts Present Risks to Infrastructure Constructed on Permafrost

By Christopher Stevens, in collaboration with The Northern Miner

Mineral exploration and mining companies need to adopt a “proactive approach” to managing the climate-driven impacts on infrastructure built on permafrost.

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Opportunities to Reduce Risk by Mainstreaming Climate Change in Mining

By Philippa Burmeister

Climate change risk identification and adaptation strategies need to form part of all project phases to ensure the development and implementation of feasible solutions.

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Climate Change for the Engineer: Standardized Procedure for Climate Change Integration into Engineering Design 

By Victor Munoz, Chris Stevens, and Maritz Rykaart

There is agreement within the engineering community that climate change is occurring, and there is a responsibility to integrate climate change into engineering design.

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Our consultants have the multidisciplinary expertise, global knowledge, and operational experience to maximize your project's success.
 

 

Philippa Burmeister BSC, PrSciNat

Principal Environmental Scientist

Philippa has over 19 years experience in integrated environmental management. She partners with business to identify and execute innovative environmental governance solutions to strategic resource challenges. 

Samantha Barnes, MEng, PEng

Senior Hydrotechnical Engineer

Mine water resource engineer, specializing in hydrology and hydraulics as well as water balance modeling.

Brian Luinstra, PhD, BSc, PGeo, PMI

Principal Hydrogeologist

Brian has over 20 years of experience in hydrogeology focusing on water supply assessments, karst and aquifer investigations, groundwater monitoring and modelling.

Victor Muñoz, MEng, PEng

Principal Water Resource Engineer

Principal Consultant with eighteen years' experience in Hydrotechnical Engineering.

Christopher Stevens, PhD, MSc

Senior Geocryologist

Chris has 18 years of experience working on Arctic and Subarctic projects.