What if it was 2030 and we reached 50% reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions?
Technologies that already exist could deliver about 60 percent of the emissions abatement that will be needed. Reaching our 2030 goals is not a technical issue. It’s a leadership one.?
If we did reach our 2030 targets, how would leaders in the resources industry need to act today??We explored a few options.?
Plan
Reaching any kind of target – big or small – requires a strategic plan.?Creating a plan alone isn’t enough though.?Leaders would need to not only create a plan to reach their 2030 targets but also operationalise that plan into their organisation through the corporate culture, values and purpose.?They also need to operationalise it through digitising their assets and reporting on carbon performance, but also inject it in to a balanced score card of peoples performance metrics.
Walk the walk and talk the talk?
To be a catalyst for future change and innovation, vision needs to start at the top.?For this transition in GHG reduction to happen, leaders will need to make hard but fair choices. This hasn’t always been easy in the past in the mining industry. Commodity businesses designed to achieve efficiency, productivity, and low cost will have to be rewired. Leaders who are willing to take risks and encourage others to do the same, be ethical role models and lead by example, are more likely to start a movement.
Plug into the people
A leader’s role is to awaken the possibility in people.?To do that, they would need to find the unfulfilled potential in the people around them and inspire them to be their best selves every day.?A leader isn’t there to solve everything themselves, rather to create opportunities where people can arrive at solutions and answers.???
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Chief Safety Officer Coal Beneficiation Operations at Exxaro Resources Grootegeluk Coal Mine
2 年We should always be responsible users and managers of the environment.
Domestic Engineer
2 年For most of this, hard choices are not needed. I have not purchased the fear based model, humanity and the world will not cease in 10yrs. What I do like, and have always worked towards my entire career/personal life is process efficiency, consumable efficiency (water, electricity, chemical use etc), cost efficiency. As a Process Engineer (Chem. Eng), thankfully, I have never had a conflict of morals. Whilst I don't subscribe to the fear based social engineering, my actions have never worked against the goals as I can see them and these programs gives more weight to projects I have (or tried) to initiate over many years. Technical leadership now has more influence over economic leadership (really the same thing in Mineral Processing), over Human Resources etc. Where I have full commitment without reservation is to see more trees planted, biodiversity preserved, clean air, water and land, less focus on consumer junk (eg seasonal clothing trends). I do not support a carbon tax, that seems like another cash grab/tyrants dream for the purple circle. I look forward to the conversation.