The Power & Potential of Hydrogen
Climate change is the defining challenge of our time.
The global response to climate change, specifically the decarbonisation of energy, transport, and broader industry, is driving a major transition towards a low-carbon future. At Anglo American, we’re committed to supporting this transition and to playing our part in addressing the root causes of climate change. Our FutureSmart MiningTM programme is designed to bring together technology and digitalisation to drive sustainability outcomes.
We believe that hydrogen - a clean, versatile energy carrier of almost infinite supply - has a significant and wide-ranging role to play in achieving a low-carbon future.
We are already targeting carbon neutrality across our operations by 2040, with eight of our operations reaching that goal by 2030. We are also rapidly increasing our sourcing of renewable energy. We’re using 100% renewables in Chile from 2021, in Brazil from 2022, and Peru in 2023.
In all, 56% of our global grid supply will be sourced from renewables by 2023.
In South Africa, Anglo American is working with EDF Renewables, a global leader in renewable energy, to develop a regional renewable energy ecosystem (RREE). This ecosystem will be designed to meet all our operational electricity requirements in South Africa through renewables by 2030, while supporting the resilience of the local electricity supply systems and the wider decarbonisation of energy in the country.