The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Marrakech Partnership published a vision of how the Metals and Mining sector, among others, could achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 while making continuous improvements in their ESG performance.
In laying out the milestones, the authors envision that by 2025, “major mining companies have all of their mines independently verified as reducing GHG emissions/energy use and are measured against leading external ESG standards (e.g. IRMA).”