Climate related risks – environmental risks and regulations – have become the new number one concern, and another ESG-related risk – social license to operate – is in third position.
Perhaps the biggest learning for companies wanting to maintain their social license to operate is that regulatory requirements are clearly out of step with societal expectations
The risks to Australia’s miners are a story with two key themes: significant challenges on one hand but strong and evolving opportunities triggered in some part by COVID-19.
When mining executives responded to the 2020 Global Outlook Survey. Twelve months later, unprecedented disruption has swept the world – and the mining industry.
The bushfires that raged through Australia in early 2020 have helped push climate change and natural disasters to the top of the list of key concerns of mining executives in Australia.
Decarbonisation and advanced intelligent technologies are global trends affecting miners around the world, and this is triggering multiple and often accelerating challenges.
When contemplating the challenges and unimaginable (or at least plain undesirable) difficulties that we can face from time to time, there will often be that one voice claiming it all to…
