According to The Australian Financial Review, mining giant Rio Tinto has sounded an alarm over the long term threat to its core iron ore and high carbon aluminium businesses from climate change, in what is expected to be the first of many more candid statements from resources companies this year.
In its maiden climate change report Rio said it was well placed to deal with an economy in which policymakers strove to limit global temperature rises to 2 degrees above long term averages because it had exited entirely from thermal coal and its portfolio of resources was "naturally hedged" across multiple commodities.
The company said its vast aluminium and copper production "will be needed in the transition to a low-carbon future and could provide an offset in an environment where our iron ore assets are less attractive from a climate change perspective".
https://www.afr.com/news/rio-tinto-sounds-climate-alarm-for-iron-ores-future-20190228-h1bt66
If you want to read this article in Japanese, please see the following link:
https://www.j-abc.com/jp-blog/1170088
In its maiden climate change report Rio said it was well placed to deal with an economy in which policymakers strove to limit global temperature rises to 2 degrees above long term averages because it had exited entirely from thermal coal and its portfolio of resources was "naturally hedged" across multiple commodities.
The company said its vast aluminium and copper production "will be needed in the transition to a low-carbon future and could provide an offset in an environment where our iron ore assets are less attractive from a climate change perspective".
https://www.afr.com/news/rio-tinto-sounds-climate-alarm-for-iron-ores-future-20190228-h1bt66
If you want to read this article in Japanese, please see the following link:
https://www.j-abc.com/jp-blog/1170088
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