{"id":31348,"date":"2022-02-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/non-classifiee\/sustainable-development-without-mining-an-impossible-proposition\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:10:54","slug":"sustainable-development-without-mining-an-impossible-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/en\/news\/sustainable-development-without-mining-an-impossible-proposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable development without mining: an impossible proposition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"import2023\">\n<div class=\"chapo\">\n<p>Since the beginning of 2021, the European Commission has been reviewing its sustainable finance policy framework \u2013 a strategy in which mining is going to play an essential part, contends Eramet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There is no such thing as a world &#8220;without&#8221; metals. They are to be found in the batteries of our smartphones and computers; they are also in airplanes, ships and trains, as well as in the medical instruments that are used every day in our hospitals. Metals are part of our daily lives &#8211; and will be increasingly important in the years to come, as the energy transition gathers pace.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because in order to make the switch from fossil fuels, and build wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles, we need nickel, cobalt, and lithium \u2013 i.e. the metals that make the energy transition possible.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission launched its Action Plan on Sustainable Finance in 2018. One of the flagship measures if this plan is the implementation of the green taxonomy, which aims to encourage investors to focus on companies that contribute to the European Union&#8217;s sustainable development objectives, particularly when it comes to the environment and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Discussions are underway to determine the sectors of activity that will be covered by this legislation, and which will thus be prioritized by future investors,<\/em>&#8221; says <strong>Am\u00e9lie Serey, Institutional Relations Manager for France and Europe at Eramet. <\/strong>&#8220;<em>To date, extractive mining activities have not been considered as a priority in terms of carrying out our energy transition, and thus have not yet been a focus of these discussions, unlike the aeronautics or automotive industries. However, we are links in the same chain: mining upstream; aeronautics and automotive downstream. Because there is one reality that cannot be ignored: metals are a key component of all the solutions needed to decarbonize our economy.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excluding mining from the picture thus undermines the entire industrial system, because as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/en\/sustainable-industry-and-responsible-mining-tomorrows-world\"><strong>Virginie de Chassey, Director of Sustainable Development and Corporate Responsibility at Eramet points out<\/strong><\/a>: &#8220;<em>As a result of the energy transition, global demand for nickel is going to double by 2030; it will triple for cobalt and increase eightfold for lithium!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9j\u00e0 positionn\u00e9 sur ces m\u00e9taux, Eramet a donc un r\u00f4le majeur \u00e0 jouer : \u00ab <em>Il n\u2019existe pas de ressource cons\u00e9quente sur le sol europ\u00e9en, <\/em>\u00bb rappelle Am\u00e9lie Serey. \u00ab<em> Le meilleur moyen pour l\u2019Europe de s\u00e9curiser durablement son approvisionnement en mati\u00e8res premi\u00e8res critiques est donc de soutenir des projets hors de son territoire mais port\u00e9s par des acteurs miniers europ\u00e9ens et d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s dans le cadre des standards RSE europ\u00e9ens.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Eramet has already made a concrete commitment to sustainable development with the development of new mining and refining projects that meet the highest social and environmental standards: recycling projects such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/en\/activities\/innovate-design\/relieve-project\">ReLieVe<\/a><\/strong>, and a host of decarbonization projects at our sites; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eramet.com\/en\/validation-groups-co2-emissions-reduction-target-sbti\"><strong>our efforts in this regard have been recognized by the SBTi<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of 2021, the European Commission has been reviewing its sustainable finance policy framework \u2013 a strategy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[96,97,359,329,239],"class_list":["post-31348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-group","tag-climate","tag-energy","tag-energy-transition","tag-environment","tag-responsible-mining","nature-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sustainable development without mining: an impossible proposition? 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