With growing emphasis being placed on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and a global focus on a just energy transition, the mining sector faces various internal and external pressures to deliver on ESG, and carbon neutrality and abatement targets, Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy environmental, social, governance and sustainability (ESGS) committee chairperson Professor Michael Solomon has said. During a panel discussion at this year’s Sanlam ESG Conference, held on August 1, he pointed out that, while mining faces pressures from investors and external stakeholders, the sector was also driven by a social licence to operate.
