Good governance and sustainable development are at the core of diversified global natural resources and technology conglomerate Vedanta Group's strategy, with a strong focus on health, safety and environment, and on enhancing the lives of local communities.
The group is focused on becoming the environmental, social and governance (ESG) leader in the natural resources sector and is committed to reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2050 or sooner.
It has pledged $5-billion over the next ten years to accelerate the transition to net zero operations.
The group's corporate social responsibility philosophy is to eradicate poverty and malnutrition with a focus on development of women and children through the marquee project Nand Ghar.
The group produces oil and gas, zinc, lead, silver, copper, iron-ore, steel, nickel, aluminium, power, renewable energy, display glass and is foraying into the semiconductors business.
Vedanta has operations in India, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Liberia, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. With an empowered talent pool globally, Vedanta places strong emphasis on partnering with all its stakeholders based on the core values of trust, sustainability, growth, entrepreneurship, integrity, respect and care.
Mining Weekly interviewed Vedanta Base Metals CEO Chris Griffith at the Investing in African Mining Indaba.