Resources Watch

3rd February 2021

Resources Watch

Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.

 

This week:

De Beers adopts strategy to meet carbon-neutral ambition

Third consecutive year of coal export decline from Richards Bay Coal Terminal

And, Transitioning fossil-fuel labour forces into new sectors critical for ‘clean, just energy transitions’

 

The De Beers Group is on its way to becoming a miner and marketer of carbon-neutral diamonds by setting out to achieve carbon neutrality at its mines by 2030.

De Beers Group Head of Carbon Neutrality Kirsten Hund

 

Coal exports from South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal last year declined for the third consecutive year, with the 70.2-million tons exported to mainly Asia and single-digit percentages to Africa and Europe, taking exports back to what they were in 2013.

 

RBCT CEO Alan Waller

 

The chair of a new global commission says that the creation of green jobs and the transitioning of existing fossil-fuel labour forces into new sectors will be “key factors for a clean, just energy transition”.

 

Danish Energy and Climate Minister Dan Jørgensen

 

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