Published: April 21, 2023 |

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Anglo American has released its regular sustainability performance update, including progress towards carbon neutral operations, creating thriving communities, and building a safe, inclusive and diverse workplace culture.

“Addressing climate change is an increasingly urgent challenge for all businesses. With our diversified product portfolio, we are well-placed to responsibly deliver many of the critical metals and minerals the world requires to transition to a cleaner, greener world. Our commitment to being part of the solution begins in our own business by meeting our carbon neutrality goals, while recognizing that partnerships are vital to deliver our shared endeavor of a low carbon future,” said Duncan Wanblad, chief executive of Anglo American.

“Everyone needs to play their part, from governments and businesses, to civil society and individuals. It is essential we also support skills and jobs and help catalyze new economic activity because this transition must include all of society — it must be ‘Just’. Through our collaborative regional development approach, we act as a development partner to help improve lives by catalyzing thriving communities with diversified economies that endure and prosper well beyond our presence,” added Wanblad.

CARBON NEUTRAL OPERATIONS BY 2040

Anglo American is progressing towards its target to become carbon neutral across operations by 2040. At the end of 2022, their Scope 1 and 2 emissions were 21 percent below the peak levels of 2019. This significant reduction reflects its transition to 100 percent renewable electricity supply across their South America operations, with Australia to follow in 2025. In southern Africa, now its largest source of Scope 2 emissions, they have partnered with EDF Renewables to develop 3-5 GW of clean generation capacity over the next decade.

While Scope 3 emissions reduction is largely dependent on the decarbonization of their value chains and the steel industry in particular, which represents the significant majority of their footprint, they are progressing towards its ambition to halve these emissions by 2040. With this in mind, they are working with several prominent steelmaking customers to help develop cleaner steelmaking technologies. They are also cutting carbon emissions in shipping activities through the introduction of 10-strong LNG dual-fuelled “Ubuntu” shipping fleet over the course of 2023 and 2024, with two capesize vessels already in service and offering up to a 35 percent emissions reduction compared to conventional fuel.

THRIVING COMMUNITIES THROUGH LOCAL PROCUREMENT AND LIVELIHOODS PROGRAMS

Anglo American’s Sustainable Mining Plan commits them to supporting three jobs offsite for every job in their operations by 2025, increasing to five offsite jobs by 2030, with its focus on local procurement and Collaborative Regional Development (CRD) approach playing a major role. Through CRD, they are making further investments with partners in agriculture, agro-processing, municipal capacity-building, and education, catalyzing diversification within local economies and helping to ensure the positive impacts of operations are felt beyond the life of mine. By the end of 2022, they had supported 115,000 jobs through local procurement and socio-economic development programs since the launch of its Sustainable Mining Plan in 2018, supporting 1.8 offsite jobs for every onsite job in relevant countries.

BUILDING A SAFE, INCLUSIVE, AND DIVERSE WORKPLACE CULTURE

Anglo American promotes a safe, inclusive, and diverse environment where every colleague is valued and respected for who they are and has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. They go beyond physical safety by helping to create an environment of psychological safety. In November, as part of its Living with Dignity program, they launched their first Living with Dignity hub in South Africa. The hub is an independently managed facility that provides victims of gender-based violence, bullying, harassment, and victimization (whether in the workplace or at home in the form of domestic violence) an independent reporting channel, as well as expert psycho-social and legal support.

In 2022, they embarked on accreditation with the Fair Wage Network and are proud to have been awarded status as a committed global living wage employer in January 2023. Anglo American is the first mining company to reach this milestone. Beyond the mining sector, Anglo American is the third company in the world to be Living Wage globally accredited by the Fair Wage Network.

Anglo American is a leading global mining company and its products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Their portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions of consumers. With people at the heart of their business, they use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move, and market products to their customers — safely and sustainably.

As a responsible producer of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, premium quality iron ore and metallurgical coal for steelmaking, and nickel — with crop nutrients in development — they are committed to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040. More broadly, their Sustainable Mining Plan commits them to a series of stretching goals to ensure they work towards a healthy environment, creating thriving communities, and building trust as a corporate leader. They work together with business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the benefit of the communities and countries in which they operate.

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