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'Sustainable mining' might seem like an oxymoron, but Australian giant BHP is taking a proactive approach to lessening its impact.

Australia’s former chief scientist says electrification and hydrogen will both have a big role to play in decarbonising the global economy.

The federal government’s first State of the Hydrogen report outlined the challenges for Australia to have a world-leading export industry by the early 2030s.

Decarbonisation is the biggest long-term economic adjustment Australia faces since the Hawke-Keating governments exposed the nation to global market forces in the 1980s.

The call from business at The Australian Financial Review Energy & Climate Summit was for more ambition and clarity around Australia’s emissions reductions target and policy framework.

Industry leaders demanded more ambitious action from the government on emissions reduction before the COP26 summit, despite Angus Taylor’s warning of higher bills.

Mike Cannon-Brookes wants more recognition of the opportunities in going green. Here’s a handful from Monday’s Australian Financial Review Energy Summit.

In Australia, investor angst has concentrated on BHP’s membership of the Minerals Council of Australia and an associated body called Coal21, which is now known as Low Emission Technology Australia. BHP reviewed its membership of the minerals council in 2019 and decided to stay, although it did suspend its membership of the Queensland Resources Council in October after it campaigned against the Greens in the state election. Coal21 was set up to research technology to reduce emissions, in pa...

‘People are sceptical’: why mining giant BHP wants to get to net zero and how it plans to do it Ben Butler Fiona Wild knows people don’t believe BHP is serious about taking action on climate change – she gets the letters, some of them in all capitals, accusing the global miner of not doing enough. Wild is the executive at BHP charged with overseeing the company’s ambitious plan, announced in September, to slash emissions by 30% over the next decade and achieve net zero...

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