Industry must move from ESG into UN's SDGs to achieve sustainable decarbonization - ICMM chief executive

Focusing on the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals could be a "better framework" to capture the overlap between the environmental, societal and governmental aspects that mining companies have to consider in their moves toward sustainability, the chief executive officer of International Council of Mining and Metals Rohitesh Dhawan said on November 10.

Speaking at the UN's COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Dhawan noted a "tension between climate and other developmental priorities," which mining companies face in the race to become more sustainable. 
Dhawan said that there is often a "shared dissonance that both investors and mining companies feel" when it comes to weighing risk and opportunities that come with decisions based on the ESG evaluation.  
"We can have a decarbonization conversation today, really important, about how you drive down emissions," Dhawan said.  

"But when we walk out of this room and we have a conversation about social development in mining-dependent countries, we tend to forget the decarbonization...

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