I wrote last year about how we need to mitigate the potentially adverse impacts of mining on the environment and ensure that our values on sustainability and mitigating climate change are reflected throughout our value chain. We have made strides in this area and our ESG team is rolling out the standards we have adopted at Tharisa Minerals across the Group, particularly in Zimbabwe on the Karo project. The Committee believes we have set ourselves achievable and realistic goals aimed at reducing our carbon emissions. We will achieve a 30% reduction by 2030 (from a 2020 financial year baseline that uses 2019 data) and our roadmap to be net carbon neutral by 2050 is in place.

Chairman of the Climate Change and Sustainability Committee and Lead Independent Non-Executive Director, Dr Carol Bell