mining and climate change in south africa

  • Mining and climate change – Opportunity and risk

    2014-2-12  Health and safety risks to employees and the local communities on which businesses depend. Reputational risks, and risks to a company’s ability to gain and maintain social licence to operate, if mining and metals operations exacerbate the climate change

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  • mining and climate change in south africa

    South Africa is experiencing significant effects of climate change, particularly as a result of increased temperatures and rainfall variability. The mining sector is a key economic sector in South Africa, which is likely to be highly impacted by climate change, given its strong interlinkages with vulnerable natural resources, such as land ...

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  • Coal mining and climate change - Coal Mining Matters

    2021-6-17  Coal mining and climate change. Coal is to South Africa what oil is to the Middle East countries – it is the primary source of energy in the major South African economic sectors, notably mining, manufacturing and other heavy industry. It is also true that the use of coal

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  • South African coal miner plans new climate change ...

    2019-8-22  South Africa’s Exxaro Resources Ltd. said it’s working on a new strategy for its business founded on coal mining amid investor and public concerns about the impact of climate change.

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  • Adapting to Climate Change: A Guide for the Mining

    2015-3-24  This brief examines how climate change is affecting the mining industry and how companies are responding. While mining companies have primarily focused on climate change mitigation, they are starting to take significant steps to adapt to the consequences of climate change.

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  • South Africa's Second National Climate Change

    South Africa’s climate change response is directed primarily by the country’s climate change policy set out in the NCCRWP (DEA 2011). The NCCRWP together with the NDP addresses the immediate and observed threats of climate change to the country’s society, economy and environment and provide the basis for tracking South Africa’s transition to a climate resilient society and lower carbon economy.

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  • Pollution Climate Change – Centre for

    Overview. South Africa has excellent environmental legislation, but non-compliance with and poor implementation and enforcement of those laws mean that pollution’s harmful impacts on the environment, human health and wellbeing are prevalent in large parts of the country, and most often unfairly discriminate against vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

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  • A South African Sangoma Story and Climate Change

    Most of the district's rain falls between November and March and, compared with the national average of 450 mm per year, the Ga-Selala area receives between about 500 mm and 600 mm of rain annually. The problem is that the rain arrives inconsistently,

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  • Chapter 11 Climate change - Environment

    2018-6-12  South Africa’s greenhouse gas emissions. Projections of future temperature and rainfall, and potential impacts of climate change on health, water resources, rangelands, maize, forestry and biodiversity were discussed. South Africa’s response to climate change was presented. Since the 2006 SAEO, local and global research has advanced

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  • Study Climate Change - Wits University

    2021-4-21  The first Earth System Model developed and based in Africa is creating one of the most reliable and most detailed modulations of climate change. Teens feel the heat of climate change . A Wits scientist has identified how climate change affects the capacity of adolescents to learn equitably in different environments.

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  • mining and climate change in south africa

    Analysis on Climate Change Impacts on Mining in South . South Africa is experiencing significant effects of climate change, particularly as a result of increased temperatures and rainfall variability. The mining sector is a key economic sector in South Africa, which is likely to be highly impacted by climate change, given its strong ...

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  • Mining and climate change – Opportunity and risk

    2014-2-12  Mining and climate change. ... In this case the change-in-law event is the imposition of new (carbon) tax in South Africa. Market risk: it is very likely that demand for coal will, over time, curtail as greater emphasis is placed on renewable energies. In this instance, a coal supplier might consider allying itself with the rapid development of ...

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  • Coal mining and climate change - Coal Mining Matters

    2021-6-17  2021-6-17  Coal is to South Africa what oil is to the Middle East countries – it is the primary source of energy in the major South African economic sectors, notably mining, manufacturing and other heavy industry. It is also true that the use of coal contributes significantly to carbon emissions which is thought to accelerate climate change.

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  • Case study on PGMs and nickel mining in South Africa

    2020-6-23  – Climate change and mining in South Africa: Case study on PGMs and nickel 9 1 Introduction 1.1 Project background The following case study is one of five country case studies of the project ‘Impacts of climate change on the environmental criticality of Germany’s raw material demand‘ ( KlimRess), commissioned by the

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  • Climate change and the mining sector financial

    2021-5-14  2021-5-14  Climate change and the mining sector financial sustainability. Building a sustainable future as a mining company requires an understanding of the financial risks and opportunities that climate change poses for the industry. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has long identified increased concentration of Greenhouse Gases (GHG ...

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  • The Water-Mining-Climate Nexus in South Africa: A

    South Africa is currently experiencing its worst drought in a century and climate change is projected to greatly decrease precipitation further. At the same time, many of the country’s freshwater resources are polluted with sulfuric acid and elements such as lead and arsenic that are byproducts of mining for gold, platinum and other resources.

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  • Mining Deepening South Africa’s Climate Change

    2016-12-8  In 2014, South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs reported that the mining and quarrying sector had been identified as being at considerable risk from the secondary impacts of climate change. According to the department, terrifying levels of air, ground and water pollution have been recorded since 2014 as a result of growing mine dumps.

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  • South African coal miner plans new climate change ...

    2019-8-22  South Africa’s Exxaro Resources Ltd. said it’s working on a new strategy for its business founded on coal mining amid investor and public concerns about the impact of climate change.

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  • South African coal miner plans new climate change

    2019-8-22  2019-8-22  S outh Africa’s Exxaro Resources Ltd. said it’s working on a new strategy for its business founded on coal mining amid investor and public concerns about the impact of climate change.. The company said it’s planning “structural changes,” including clean-power initiatives, to make the business sustainable in the long term.

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  • Adapting to Climate Change: A Guide for the Mining

    2015-3-24  This primer on climate change adaptation summarizes how companies in the mining industry are reporting on climate change risks and opportunities, and highlights current and emerging best practices and guidance for EU companies on how to develop a proactive approach to climate change

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  • Coal mining and climate change - Coal Mining Matters

    2021-6-17  Coal is to South Africa what oil is to the Middle East countries – it is the primary source of energy in the major South African economic sectors, notably mining, manufacturing and other heavy industry. It is also true that the use of coal contributes significantly to carbon emissions which is thought to accelerate climate change.

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  • Climate change and the mining sector financial

    2021-5-14  Climate change and the mining sector financial sustainability. Building a sustainable future as a mining company requires an understanding of the financial risks and opportunities that climate change poses for the industry. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has long identified increased concentration of Greenhouse Gases (GHG ...

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  • Planning for employment effects of climate change in the ...

    2020-6-12  of climate change in the mining sector The entire mining sector in South Africa is vulnerable to climate change and to job losses as a result of the impact of climate change and the international trade responses to address climate change. Every province has mining operations and related infrastructure in place and needs to plan now for

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  • Mining and climate change: A review and framework

    2018-1-1  Literature on climate change and mining is scarce, particularly in developing countries. • Spatial analysis suggests that mines will be disparately impacted by climate change. • A new framework identifies different types of climate change-mining relationships. • A review of scholarly and policy research on these relationships is conducted.

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  • climate change Archives - Mining Africa

    2021-6-5  The mining industry in Africa is an important source of earnings for the continent. For many African countries mineral exploration and production for export is the key to economic stability and growth. The industry provides innumerable jobs and supports thousands of local families. The commodities that are reliant on the mining, refinement and ...

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  • AN ASSESSMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA’S COAL MINING

    2018-11-17  possible future climate change impacts that may affect selected coal mines in South Africa. The second objective was to establish the nature and extent to which these mines were ready to address and implement adaptation measures. The last objective was to determine and document existing climate change adaptation practices in selected mines.

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  • Is the Coal Mining Industry of South Africa Under

    2019-9-1  The Real Reason Behind Sky-High Coal Prices. As the world is getting more and more serious about tackling climate change and lowering carbon emissions, the coal mining sector is becoming increasingly challenged, and in South Africa that is not the only threat to the industry. The increasing demand from Eskom, one of the largest state-owned companies and the main electricity supplier in South ...

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  • Pollution Climate Change – Centre for

    Overview. South Africa has excellent environmental legislation, but non-compliance with and poor implementation and enforcement of those laws mean that pollution’s harmful impacts on the environment, human health and wellbeing are prevalent in large parts of the country, and most often unfairly discriminate against vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

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  • A South African Sangoma Story and Climate Change

    A sangoma. Selina Thotse was a dressmaker and knitter until a prophet in her Zionist church told her that her path was with the ancestors. Her obedience to the calling got her expelled from that very church, but she has prospered from it, nevertheless, albeit marginally. Her first cow was in payment for a protection spell over someone's home, a ...

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  • Climate-Smart Mining: Minerals for Climate Action

    2019-11-4  The Climate-Smart Mining approach has been developed in concert with the broader UN Sustainable Development Goals to ensure the decarbonization of the mining and energy sectors also benefits resource-rich countries that host these strategic minerals and the communities directly impacted by their extraction.

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