AFRICA EVENT REPORT POD 1 : DECARBONISING POWER FOR AFRICAN MINES
KEYNOTE PANEL: DECARBONISING ENERGY, ESG AND CLIMATE GOALS FOR AFRICAN MINES
Chair: Yassine Belkabir, Managing Director, AB Mining Consultants Cobus Loots, CEO, Pan African Resources Martin Horgan, CEO, Centamin Pierre Herben, Group Head of Carbon Neutrality, Anglo American Yassine Belkabir, chairing the keynote, set the tone for a stimulating and illuminating discussion with his remark that decarbonisation had been ranked among the top three business opportunities
facing mining businesses in 2022. “Decarbonisation could be ranked as a business’s structure impacting strategy and operations,” he said. This view was echoed by Martin Horgan who revealed that Centamin, in the course of a “reset and reinvestment” of its mining assets, had defined ESG and decarbonisation as an integral part of the new corporate framework devised for the company. “What we’re actually realising and recognising now is that a number of these initiatives make sense from a decarbonisation perspective, but also
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